From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754357AbYIJXFk (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:05:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756277AbYIJXFN (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:05:13 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:55228 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756232AbYIJXFL (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:05:11 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:05:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080910.160505.14060698.davem@davemloft.net> To: dwmw2@infradead.org Cc: jeffm@suse.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1221087719.13621.50.camel@macbook.infradead.org> References: <48C68507.6000609@suse.com> <1221087719.13621.50.camel@macbook.infradead.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: David Woodhouse Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:01:59 -0700 > On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 10:15 -0400, Jeff Mahoney wrote: > > This patch moves them to /lib/firmware/$KERNELRELEASE. udev v127's > > firmware.sh looks there first before falling back to /lib/firmware. > > NAK. > > This isn't compatible with the version of udev that people actually have > installed, today. And it's also the _wrong_ thing to do. > > Firmware really _isn't_ version-specific. Tell that to every Debian and Debian derived system on the planet. To my knowledge, it is only fedora and possibly one or two other dists that put the firmware files in a unary /lib/firmware location, rather than a versioned /lib/firmware/$KERNELRELASE one.