Closed whitty closed 1 year ago
Merged. The version is an arbitrary number. All we need to remember is to update it when the driver changes.
I think firmware updates are being handled correctly. When Realtek does an update, I get notification in an E-mail. At that point, I get the new firmware into this repo. As a result, if the distro's version differs, it is because the distro has not yet updated to the latest.
This one is not quite so straightforward. Some issues:
1
linux-firmware
package. At that point the rule could be changed to require the firmware package or thelinux-firmware
version >= some version.modalias
es included is all of themodalias
es provided by the driver. In ideal world if the upstream kernel support for some of those is "good enough" then it might make sense to reduce this list. This is probably not a problem unless someone tries to import this into debian or ubuntu package repositories (ie probably that maintainer's issue)That said I've had zero issues with the driver since packaging/installing.
DKMS on debian/ubuntu simplifies the secure-boot issues, signing is taken care of through the same mechanisms as nVidia and drivers. You won't need special reboot and MOK registration.
Additionally DKMS ensures new kernel installations will automatically rebuild the driver, so you can accept normal kernel updates.
If you don't want to take it I'll keep it forked here and as I'm eventually intending to create a PPA (even if only I use it)