IPW2100 Kconfig

IPW2100 Kconfig

[Alejandro Bonilla]

Hi,

	I checked the IPW2100 in the current git from linux-2.6 and the menuconfig
help (Kconfig) says you need to put the firmware in /etc/firmware, it should
be /lib/firmware.

Who should I send the "patch" to? Or can someone simply change that?

Thanks,

.Alejandro

[PATCH] wrong firmware location in IPW2100 Kconfig entry (Was: IPW2100 Kconfig)

[Jesper Juhl]

On Tuesday 06 September 2005 20:32, Alejandro Bonilla wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 	I checked the IPW2100 in the current git from linux-2.6 and the menuconfig
> help (Kconfig) says you need to put the firmware in /etc/firmware, it should
> be /lib/firmware.
> 
> Who should I send the "patch" to? Or can someone simply change that?
> 

Firmware should go into /lib/firmware, not /etc/firmware.

Found by Alejandro Bonilla.


Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
---

 drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-2.6.13-mm1-orig/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig	2005-09-02 23:59:51.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.13-mm1/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig	2005-09-06 20:39:45.000000000 +0200
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@
 	  In order to use this driver, you will need a firmware image for it.
           You can obtain the firmware from
 	  <http://ipw2100.sf.net/>.  Once you have the firmware image, you 
-	  will need to place it in /etc/firmware.
+	  will need to place it in /lib/firmware.
 
           You will also very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to
           configure your card:

RE: [PATCH] wrong firmware location in IPW2100 Kconfig entry (Was: IPW2100 Kconfig)

[Alejandro Bonilla]

> > Who should I send the "patch" to? Or can someone simply change that?

Jesper,

	Thanks. I also had a question. To whom is this patch sent to? Netdev or LK?
How does one determine?

.Alejandro

>
> Firmware should go into /lib/firmware, not /etc/firmware.
>
> Found by Alejandro Bonilla.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>

Re: [PATCH] wrong firmware location in IPW2100 Kconfig entry (Was: IPW2100 Kconfig)

[Jiri Slaby]

Alejandro Bonilla napsal(a):

>	Thanks. I also had a question. To whom is this patch sent to? Netdev or LK?
>How does one determine?
>  
>
Read, read, read. Documentation/SubmittingPatches, point 4.

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RE: IPW2100 Kconfig

[Alejandro Bonilla]

> AFAIK hotplug looks for firmware in /lib/firmware and not
> /etc/firmware.
>
> On 9/8/05, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > >       I checked the IPW2100 in the current git from
> linux-2.6 and the menuconfig
> > > help (Kconfig) says you need to put the firmware in
> /etc/firmware, it should
> > > be /lib/firmware.
> > >
> > > Who should I send the "patch" to? Or can someone simply
> change that?
> >
> > Are you sure it is not distro-dependend?
> > --

Right, IPW2100 came with Legacy fw load first. Maybe that was dragged from
long time ago and used incorrectly.

I'm 100% sure that new versions of hotplug try to look at /lib/firmware and
was /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware before, but there was some discussion that
/lib would make more sense cause /usr could be dependant on other stuff.

Jesper already signed the patch.

.Alejandro

Re: IPW2100 Kconfig

[Bharath Ramesh]

AFAIK hotplug looks for firmware in /lib/firmware and not /etc/firmware.

On 9/8/05, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> >       I checked the IPW2100 in the current git from linux-2.6 and the menuconfig
> > help (Kconfig) says you need to put the firmware in /etc/firmware, it should
> > be /lib/firmware.
> >
> > Who should I send the "patch" to? Or can someone simply change that?
> 
> Are you sure it is not distro-dependend?
> --
> 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms
> 
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Re: IPW2100 Kconfig

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> 	I checked the IPW2100 in the current git from linux-2.6 and the menuconfig
> help (Kconfig) says you need to put the firmware in /etc/firmware, it should
> be /lib/firmware.
> 
> Who should I send the "patch" to? Or can someone simply change that?

Are you sure it is not distro-dependend?
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64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms