From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755485AbYILOdA (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:33:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752728AbYILOcw (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:32:52 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:57466 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752580AbYILOcv (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:32:51 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir From: David Woodhouse To: Joseph Fannin Cc: Greg KH , Marcel Holtmann , Thierry Vignaud , David Miller , jeffm@suse.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org In-Reply-To: <20080912083927.GA13849@nineveh.local> References: <20080910.160505.14060698.davem@davemloft.net> <20080911134042.GB3293@kroah.com> <1221151165.6309.55.camel@californication> <20080911201541.GA18518@kroah.com> <1221165518.4077.17.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20080911205738.GB11708@kroah.com> <1221167725.4077.34.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20080911220700.GD5823@kroah.com> <1221171943.4077.59.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20080912083927.GA13849@nineveh.local> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:32:44 -0700 Message-Id: <1221229964.3919.38.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 Fri, 2008-09-12 at 04:39 -0400, Joseph Fannin wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 03:25:43PM -0700, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 15:07 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > > Now, can we _please_ stop being bloody stupid? If there are _real_ > > problems, like the one I fixed with commit 1cede1af last week, then I'm > > perfectly happy to deal with them. But stop making crap up. > > I CAN'T INSTALL MORE THAN ONE KERNEL PACKAGE > v2.6.26. > > IT'S NOT IMAGINARY. > > IT USED TO WORK AND YOU BROKE IT. Then your kernel packaging is broken. Fix it. Or go an stand in the corner with the muppets who are whining that the move from arch/i386 to arch/x86 also broke their kernel packaging.... and who refuse to fix that too. Oh, wait...there weren't any of those; it wasn't even a _consideration_. You're just being an idiot, because people like to whine about firmware. -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation