From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754339AbYIKQp4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:45:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754791AbYIKQpq (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:45:46 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:41058 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755238AbYIKQpp (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:45:45 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir From: David Woodhouse To: Marcel Holtmann Cc: Greg KH , Thierry Vignaud , David Miller , jeffm@suse.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org In-Reply-To: <1221151165.6309.55.camel@californication> References: <48C68507.6000609@suse.com> <1221087719.13621.50.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20080910.160505.14060698.davem@davemloft.net> <20080911134042.GB3293@kroah.com> <1221151165.6309.55.camel@californication> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:45:38 -0700 Message-Id: <1221151538.8593.36.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 Thu, 2008-09-11 at 18:39 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > What is wrong with moving the firmware into its own package with its > own version number? Nothing. You can do this today, building from the linux-firmware repository. That repository is starting to contain extra firmware that vendors are now willing to let us distribute -- where they _weren't_ willing to let us distribute it as part of the kernel. -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation