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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
	Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandriva.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	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
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:18:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080911201842.GB18518@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1221151538.8593.36.camel@macbook.infradead.org>

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:45:38AM -0700, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 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.

That's great and wonderful and has absolutely nothing to do with the
real problem we have right now in 2.6.27-rc.

Jeff's patch is one proposed solution for the problem, what's the
objection to it?  Reliance on a udev change to catch this as well?  It
looks like SuSE and Ubuntu already handle this, and I'm sure Fedora can
as well, right?

If the udev script requirement is a problem, then how does anyone else
suggest to solve the problem that we currently have with the existing
code?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-11 20:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-09 14:15 Jeff Mahoney
2008-09-10 22:35 ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-11 13:37   ` Greg KH
2008-09-10 23:01 ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-10 23:05   ` David Miller
2008-09-10 23:15     ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-10 23:24       ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-11  2:55         ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-10 23:24       ` David Miller
2008-09-10 23:36         ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-10 23:42           ` David Miller
2008-09-11  0:23             ` Herbert Xu
2008-09-11  0:39               ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-11  7:44         ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-11  8:13           ` Jeff Mahoney
2008-09-11 16:09             ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-11  8:29           ` Faidon Liambotis
2008-09-11 16:12             ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-11  8:58           ` Frans Pop
2008-09-11 16:16             ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-11  8:43       ` Frans Pop
2008-09-11  9:52         ` Frans Pop
2008-09-11 14:50           ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-11 15:24             ` Frans Pop
2008-09-11 15:31               ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-11 15:49                 ` Frans Pop
2008-09-11 15:57                   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-11 16:32                     ` Frans Pop
2008-09-11 17:49                       ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-11 18:24                         ` Frans Pop
2008-09-11 16:01                   ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-11  4:00     ` David Newall
2008-09-11  6:35     ` Faidon Liambotis
2008-09-11  7:15       ` Jeff Mahoney
2008-09-11 13:38         ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-11 14:36           ` Jeff Mahoney
2008-09-11 16:29             ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-11 16:20       ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-11 11:29     ` Thierry Vignaud
2008-09-11 13:40       ` Greg KH
2008-09-11 16:39         ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-11 16:45           ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-11 20:18             ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-09-11 20:15           ` Greg KH
2008-09-11 20:38             ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-11 20:57               ` Greg KH
2008-09-11 21:15                 ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-11 22:07                   ` Greg KH
2008-09-11 22:25                     ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-12  8:39                       ` Joseph Fannin
2008-09-12 13:50                         ` Gene Heskett
2008-09-12 14:32                         ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-12 20:24                           ` Kai Henningsen
2011-02-25  2:39 Jeff Mahoney
2011-02-25  5:01 ` Michael Tokarev
2011-02-25 15:03   ` Jeff Mahoney
2011-02-25 16:54     ` David Woodhouse
2011-03-01  0:48 ` Andrew Morton

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