From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754867AbYIKQAG (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:00:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752570AbYIKP7z (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:59:55 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:42118 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751986AbYIKP7y (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:59:54 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:57:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Frans Pop cc: David Woodhouse , davem@davemloft.net, jeffm@suse.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir In-Reply-To: <200809111749.40204.elendil@planet.nl> Message-ID: References: <48C68507.6000609@suse.com> <200809111725.01511.elendil@planet.nl> <1221147068.8593.31.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <200809111749.40204.elendil@planet.nl> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > > Just keep on ignoring current issues. Aren't _you_ the one who are ignoring current issues? The fact is, _currently_ everybody looks in /lib/firmware. The fact is, most people don't want millions of copies of the firmware (one copy for each kernel they compile - think about those of us who compile kernels every day). I actually like a release-specific firmware directory, but I think it's the *vendor* kernel that should do it, not the normal kernel. The _vendor_ should put its firmware files in some vendor-specific place, and then add that to the end of the firmware loading path. Notice? The vendor can do that. The generic kernel can NOT - since the generic kernel cannot impact the firmware loading paths of all the various distros. So all of the noise in this whole discussion has been totally inane and idiotic. Linus