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Bug#857054: initramfs-tools: Firmware for builtin kernel modules not included in initramfs

From Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject Bug#857054: initramfs-tools: Firmware for builtin kernel modules not included in initramfs
Date 2017-03-07 16:40 +0100
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Control: clone -1 -2
Control: reassign -2 src:linux 4.9.13-1
Control: retitle -2 Kernel installation should include list of firmware for built-in drivers
Control: block -1 with -2
Control: found -1 0.120
Control: found -1 0.127

initramfs-tools will not keep its own lists of driver/firmware
dependencies; that is not maintainable.  This information has to be
carried by the drivers themselves.

In the case of built-in drivers, unfortunately, that information is
currently discarded at kernel build time.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Logic doesn't apply to the real world. - Marvin Minsky

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Bug#857054: initramfs-tools: Firmware for builtin kernel modules not included in initramfs Benjamin Drung <benjamin.drung@profitbricks.com> - 2017-03-07 16:20 +0100
  Bug#857054: initramfs-tools: Firmware for builtin kernel modules not included in initramfs Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-03-07 16:40 +0100

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