From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756183AbYEYNrY (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2008 09:47:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753539AbYEYNrQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2008 09:47:16 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:57270 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753527AbYEYNrQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2008 09:47:16 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option From: David Woodhouse To: Alan Cox Cc: Michael Buesch , Marcel Holtmann , Johannes Berg , Sam Ravnborg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aoliva@redhat.com, Abhay Salunke , kay.sievers@vrfy.org, Takashi Iwai In-Reply-To: <20080525141638.65111d64@core> References: <1211550282.28967.8.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <200805251149.41059.mb@bu3sch.de> <9995307A-E602-4A30-8900-6AEDDF7D1D8F@holtmann.org> <200805251414.04509.mb@bu3sch.de> <20080525141638.65111d64@core> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 14:46:58 +0100 Message-Id: <1211723218.31212.104.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.1 (2.22.1-2.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 14:16 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > What if I want 2 or 3 different firmware versions installed at once? > > I'll have to play dirty tricks with the filenames then and put several > > unrelated firmware versions into one directory. That's going to be a mess. > > You add the desired feature to udev, or use symlinks. Hardly a "mess". It's a bit of a pain for the in-kernel firmware loading that I'm working on now, if we can no longer count on the requested string to be the single match criterion. -- dwmw2