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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:37:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080911133717.GA3293@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080910153507.979131ce.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 03:35:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:15:35 -0400
> Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> wrote:
> 
> >  Every kernel package trying to provide files under /lib/firmware runs
> >  into problems really quickly with multiple kernels installed, especially
> >  with respect to distribution package tracking of the files.
> 
> For how long has this problem existed?

Since the firmware target got added to the kernel, so it's a 2.6.27
thing, no need for -stable here, older kernels do not have this problem.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-11 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-09 14:15 [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir Jeff Mahoney
2008-09-10 22:35 ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-11 13:37   ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-09-10 23:01 ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-10 23:05   ` David Miller
2008-09-10 23:15     ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-10 23:24       ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-11  2:55         ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-10 23:24       ` David Miller
2008-09-10 23:36         ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-10 23:42           ` David Miller
2008-09-11  0:23             ` Herbert Xu
2008-09-11  0:39               ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-11  7:44         ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-11  8:13           ` Jeff Mahoney
2008-09-11 16:09             ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-11  8:29           ` Faidon Liambotis
2008-09-11 16:12             ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-11  8:58           ` Frans Pop
2008-09-11 16:16             ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-11  8:43       ` Frans Pop
2008-09-11  9:52         ` Frans Pop
2008-09-11 14:50           ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-11 15:24             ` Frans Pop
2008-09-11 15:31               ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-11 15:49                 ` Frans Pop
2008-09-11 15:57                   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-11 16:32                     ` Frans Pop
2008-09-11 17:49                       ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-11 18:24                         ` Frans Pop
2008-09-11 16:01                   ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-11  4:00     ` David Newall
2008-09-11  6:35     ` Faidon Liambotis
2008-09-11  7:15       ` Jeff Mahoney
2008-09-11 13:38         ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-11 14:36           ` Jeff Mahoney
2008-09-11 16:29             ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-11 16:20       ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-11 11:29     ` Thierry Vignaud
2008-09-11 13:40       ` Greg KH
2008-09-11 16:39         ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-11 16:45           ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-11 20:18             ` Greg KH
2008-09-11 20:15           ` Greg KH
2008-09-11 20:38             ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-11 20:57               ` Greg KH
2008-09-11 21:15                 ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-11 22:07                   ` Greg KH
2008-09-11 22:25                     ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-12  8:39                       ` Joseph Fannin
2008-09-12 13:50                         ` Gene Heskett
2008-09-12 14:32                         ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-12 20:24                           ` Kai Henningsen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-02-25  2:39 Jeff Mahoney
2011-02-25  5:01 ` Michael Tokarev
2011-02-25 15:03   ` Jeff Mahoney
2011-02-25 16:54     ` David Woodhouse
2011-03-01  0:48 ` Andrew Morton

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