Re: New iwlwifi 3945 uCode available

[Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>]

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Hi!
I'm a 3945 user and am quite happy with everything. Thx for your good
work! But:

On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:28:14 +0200
"Tomas Winkler" <tomasw-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 
> The objective of the objections is not that we want to immensely hurt
> users but rather the trade off between maintain even uglier code and
> users running buggy firmware versus logging into older kernel and
> downloading new firmware in 5 minutes looks to me not proportional.
> Distro users that pull updates won't even notice. I might be wrong
> though.

more so like 10 minutes, if you are quick to grasp what happened. 
if  1000 encounter this problem, that's 10000 minutes wasted, thats
7*24 hours. That's some annoying big waste of time!
keep in mind that that breakage _will_ waste the time of other people
and that those people are your fellow cutting-edge-kernel testers and
developers! 

but then again, if the new firmware is really superior in many cases,
that might be worth it? i mean, if people forget that they are annoyed
because the device now performs super ueber cool... or smth like that..
it might pay off (from a user perspective)... 

so my hope: you avoid breakage and keep people happy! That
is also good for your karma (whatever that is) 

Sincerely,
Florian


p.s.: if i think more about it: all my non-linux colleagues refer to
such breakages as "the linux-expirience"... my linux friends would refer
to such stuff as "the gentoo-expirience" ... but in my book stuff
like this just sucks...

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