From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@gmail.com>
To: Michael Riepe <michael.riepe@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: install firmware in a kernel-dependent directory
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:45:37 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3f9a31f40902141115w27f20ecfk81213a21dbe1adbd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4996B838.2070205@googlemail.com>
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Michael Riepe
<michael.riepe@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Currently, make firmware_install puts all firmware blobs in
> /lib/firmware. If you have several kernel versions installed, they will
> overwrite each other's files, which may lead to problems if the blobs
> eventually change. I think it would be better to use a separate
> directory for every kernel version, like /lib/firmware/$(uname -r) or
> /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/firmware (the latter is my favorite).
>
> In either case, only a minimal modification in /lib/udev/firmware.sh is
> required to make it look in the new directory first.
>
> Comments?
firmware version depends on hardware version not by kernel (software) version.
So /lib/firmware is absolutely OK.
--
JSR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-14 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-14 12:25 Michael Riepe
2009-02-14 19:02 ` Robert Hancock
2009-02-14 19:15 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput [this message]
2009-02-14 20:00 ` Michael Riepe
2009-02-14 20:50 ` David Woodhouse
2009-02-14 22:12 ` david
2009-02-14 21:13 ` David Woodhouse
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