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initramfs-tools package

  1. Dapper (6.06)
  2. Bug #74004
  3. Comment #36

Comment 36 for bug 74004

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Tore Anderson (toreanderson) wrote : Re: [Bug 74004] Re: Doesn't include qla2xxx firmware

* Matt Zimmerman

> In this case, that may be true, but firmware is often tied to the
> version of the driver, so we always bind them together. It's
> happened in the past that firmware changes incompatibly across
> releases of a driver.

I know. I don't think that's the case for the QLogic driver, though.

> I agree, that seems intuitively correct and it should be
> straightforward to add support for this. Changing behaviour like
> this would be better done in the development branch, though, rather
> than in an update to 6.06 LTS.

I don't understand this concern. Currently 6.06 LTS does not load
firmware from the initramfs _at all_. If you're going to add support
for that, you might just as well add the support in a completely
«intuitively correct» manner, no?

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Tore Anderson