Takashi Iwai wrote:Correct. mkinitrd and similar scripts must be updated, so that drivers that worked prior to dwmw2's changes will continue to work after dwmw2's changes. If you fail to update some script somewhere, then the driver will be copied into the initramfs, but not the firmware, with obvious results. This is not a fail-safe system. This is an enforced-breakage, flag-day change that will cause a lot of additional work for a lot of people. Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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