From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754463AbYIJXhP (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:37:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752038AbYIJXhD (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:37:03 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:35733 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751946AbYIJXhB (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:37:01 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir From: David Woodhouse To: David Miller Cc: jeffm@suse.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org In-Reply-To: <20080910.162423.40167601.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1221087719.13621.50.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20080910.160505.14060698.davem@davemloft.net> <1221088512.13621.58.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20080910.162423.40167601.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:36:56 -0700 Message-Id: <1221089816.13621.61.camel@macbook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 (2.22.3.1-1.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 Wed, 2008-09-10 at 16:24 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: David Woodhouse > Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:15:11 -0700 > > > It's definitely not something we should be doing upstream though. > > So you think it's ok that every Debian user has to learn this > magic incantation just to use current kernels? They don't. Debian uses firmware from /lib/firmware if it doesn't exist in /lib/firmware/$(version) -- so they can install to the normal location quite happily, and it should work just fine. -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation