[Bug 96800] [regression] The drm-intel-nightly branch no longer loads unversioned firmware

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--- Comment #7 from Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at gmail.com> ---
There are kernels out there that still loads the old names with only the major
version. So we cannot remove the symbolic links from there, unless we copy the
last files known as sym links but this would increase our fw directory in ~
25%.

Major versions are for ABI/API changes. In case the interaction between the
firmware and the driver changes we bump the major. If it is only a bug fix or
small change in the firmware we bump the minor.

So, in case we had a ABI/API change you would face this issue here anyway
right?

Or we could create a really unversioned symbolic link poiting to the very
latest/newest firmware, but this would be totally broken if there was any
change in the ABI/API.

So I don't see a point of getting the symbolic links back when we only load a
very specific firmware version anyways in the driver.

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