From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754194AbZBNVPq (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:15:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754366AbZBNVNy (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:13:54 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:46181 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754351AbZBNVNx (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:13:53 -0500 Subject: Re: RFC: install firmware in a kernel-dependent directory From: David Woodhouse To: david@lang.hm Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput , Michael Riepe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <4996B838.2070205@googlemail.com> <3f9a31f40902141115w27f20ecfk81213a21dbe1adbd@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:13:29 +0100 Message-Id: <1234646010.12772.0.camel@macbook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.3 (2.24.3-1.fc10) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 14:12 -0800, david@lang.hm wrote: > are you sure? different firmware could have different interfaces for > the kernel to use. > > I don't know if this is a problem in practice (I think I've heard of > this), but there is no reason it couldn't be. It would need different filenames then anyway (like sonames). -- dwmw2