[PATCH] comgt: Move to community packages repo

Sergey Ryazanov ryazanov.s.a at gmail.com
Mon Jun 28 16:07:16 PDT 2021


On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 11:57 PM Lech Perczak <lech.perczak at gmail.com> wrote:
> W dniu 2021-06-28 o 21:55, Paul Spooren pisze:
>> On 6/28/21 9:53 AM, John Crispin wrote:
>>> On 28.06.21 21:14, Paul Spooren wrote:
>>>> I'm in favor of this too but if it's a core feature (i.e. SIM card
>>>> support) we should provide the package by default to, not?
>>>
>>> this should be explained in the wiki,
>>
>> Agree, APU boards etc also need some extra packages to support SDcards
>> and things. Let's do this.
>
> OTOH, this differs a bit from such packages, by being needed to connect
> to WAN on such devices. This is the same way as uqmi does on some -
> removing it would require other Internet connection to bootstrap its
> installation.

Yep, removing the comgt package from the firmware sounds like an
anecdote from the 90's: The modem driver is on CD, the CD-ROM driver
on the Internet.

OTOH, Arjun has been trying to draw attention to the patch for comgt
for a year. And no one reacted to his quite reasonable fix.

-- 
Sergey



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