From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Location of firmware files
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:37:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1087943878.4209.54.camel@pegasus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40ACDCE3.5040500@us.ibm.com>
Hi Brian,
> > using something like /lib/drivername will cause much more troubles than
> > it will help us. So I think /lib/firmware is a nice place to keep the
> > firmware files. The Debian packages already did it this way and so I
> > think we should go this way. Any arguments against it?
>
> Sounds fine to me.
if nobody else speaks up, prepare a patch for it and send it to Greg (CC
the list).
> Anyone have any opinions regarding microcode/firmware file naming
> conventions, or is this something that will be difficult to standardize?
I used the original names of the firmware files from the Windows
drivers.
Regards
Marcel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-22 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-20 16:29 Location of firmware files Brian King
2004-05-20 16:53 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-05-20 17:19 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-05-20 17:25 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-05-20 18:16 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-06-22 20:50 ` Brian King
2004-06-22 21:17 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-06-22 21:36 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-06-22 21:51 ` Brian King
2004-06-22 22:02 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-06-22 22:27 ` Brian King
2004-06-22 22:37 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2004-06-22 23:09 ` Greg KH
2004-06-23 8:14 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-09-20 21:23 ` Greg KH
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