From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756585AbYIKU6p (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:58:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753567AbYIKU6g (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:58:36 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:50646 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753532AbYIKU6g (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:58:36 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:57:38 -0700 From: Greg KH To: David Woodhouse Cc: Marcel Holtmann , Thierry Vignaud , David Miller , 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 Message-ID: <20080911205738.GB11708@kroah.com> 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> <20080911201541.GA18518@kroah.com> <1221165518.4077.17.camel@macbook.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1221165518.4077.17.camel@macbook.infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 01:38:38PM -0700, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 13:15 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > This is the firmware that is in the kernel source tree, that has been > > moved to use request_firmware, and was originally tied tightly to the > > kernel drivers themselves. > > Not really. Most of it hasn't changed for years; it isn't _really_ tied > that closely to the kernel. Some are and some aren't (I have two in my -staging tree that are changing as the driver changes, so it does happen.) > You can just ignore what the kernel ships with, and install the firmware > from the linux-firmware.git repository instead. So you are now forcing distros to ship the linux-firmware.git repo instead? That's not nice and is a totally new dependancy for them to handle. What about the very basic fact that kernel versions will stomp on files from other kernel versions if you install multiple kernels on the same machine? That's just bad and ripe for problems in any package management system. thanks, greg k-h