Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 18:32:48 +0100
From: Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>
To: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>, mb@bu3sch.de,
	stefano.brivio@polimi.it, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] b43: Declare all possible firmware files.
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Tim Gardner [2010-01-07 12:43 -0700]:
> AFAIK Jockey only needs to be able to tell if _any_ of the firmware
> files have been installed and could therefore make an install decision
> based on just one firmware file name.

Correct.

> Martin - if thats the case, then we need only list one firmware file in
> the modinfo, correct?

Right. If that's not practical to fix on the kernel side for some
reason, we could also put in a quirk into the Broadcom handler in
update-notifier. (Right now it just listens for FIRMWARE subsystem
uevents and checksc if the value of it exists as a file).

This was originally introduced for the DVB-T driver firmware packages,
but if we could make it work for b43 as well, this would be nice.

Thanks!

Martin