From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755238AbYIKL36 (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:29:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752570AbYIKL3u (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:29:50 -0400 Received: from mx1.moondrake.net ([212.85.150.166]:57584 "EHLO mx1.mandriva.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752563AbYIKL3t (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:29:49 -0400 X-Spam-Virus: No To: David Miller Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, 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 X-URL: <1221087719.13621.50.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20080910.160505.14060698.davem@davemloft.net> From: Thierry Vignaud Organization: Mandriva Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:29:46 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20080910.160505.14060698.davem@davemloft.net> (David Miller's message of "Wed\, 10 Sep 2008 16\:05\:05 -0700 \(PDT\)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) 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 David Miller writes: > > This isn't compatible with the version of udev that people actually have > > installed, today. And it's also the _wrong_ thing to do. > > > > Firmware really _isn't_ version-specific. > > Tell that to every Debian and Debian derived system on the planet. > > To my knowledge, it is only fedora and possibly one or two other dists > that put the firmware files in a unary /lib/firmware location, rather > than a versioned /lib/firmware/$KERNELRELASE one. We (Mandriva Linux) do too. Why other distro cannot package firmware separatly for all their kernel flavors? Firmware are not version-specific.