From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754662AbYIJXmf (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:42:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752204AbYIJXm1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:42:27 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:39247 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752038AbYIJXm1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:42:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:42:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080910.164220.56492718.davem@davemloft.net> To: dwmw2@infradead.org Cc: jeffm@suse.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1221089816.13621.61.camel@macbook.infradead.org> References: <1221088512.13621.58.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20080910.162423.40167601.davem@davemloft.net> <1221089816.13621.61.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 16:36:56 -0700 > 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. That's not what I've heard from people more clueful from me. For example, Herbert Xu (CC:'d) told me that because of this directory usage, his wireless card couldn't find it's firmware with current kernels.