On 1 August 2014 23:35, Michael Büsch <[email protected]> wrote: >> What about handling it in a kernel? If we ever start supporting new, >> backward incompatible, version of firmware, maybe we should use >> something like a /lib/firmware/b43-v123/? > > Yes, we should _have_ done this. But we didn't. > We could simply ignore old incompatible kernels (...)
I think we broke that compatibility in 3.2, which is one before the oldest supported longterm. I don't see a point in fixing that old breakage now, when only 2.6.32 keeps affected. But I'll be more careful in the future! Thanks for discussion! _______________________________________________ b43-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/b43-dev
