Comment 38 for bug 74004

* Matt Zimmerman

> This bug is being fixed by backporting the change which was tested in
> Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10.

Okay.

> There's no telling what sort of random garbage folks have lying
> around in /lib/firmware. Which one should be preferred, theirs or
> ours? What happens if they're using a custom hook to get the
> firmware they want?

Copy over both images to the same locations they're found on the root
file system and you'll get the same behaviour in initramfs as when the
system is finished booting. I don't know where firmware_helper looks
first, but as long as the behaviour is consistent, does it really matter?

> Such a change shouldn't be rolled out without proper testing; the
> minimal change used in the update is more appropriate for a stable
> update.

That change won't affect people that upgrade from 6.06 LTS from current
to 6.06 LTS-next-update, nor people that upgrade from 6.06 LTS to
8.whatever LTS as long as it's changed there too.

But it will cause a regression when going from 6.06 to 7.04 though
unless it is changed there too, that's worth a thought I guess.

Regards
--
Tore Anderson