From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>,
jamagallon@ono.com, tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: New format Intel microcode...
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:52:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <460789E0.1000600@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1174898060.5815.11.camel@violet>
Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> that is the whole point. The slash was never meant to be used. It was
> designed to take a filename or a pattern that will be later matched by
> userspace. However some developers are now trying to abuse this since
> the simple firmware helper script matches this directly to a filename
> (and directory in this case) on the disk.
>
> Putting a slash in the request_firmware() call now enforces a
> subdirectory
I don't see how this follows from the former. Userspace is free to
translate the kernel string into anything it wants, even a simple
replacement of / with _. So I don't see how this "enforces" a
subdirectory. Firmware gets a namespace basically, and a / is a
logical namespace separator.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-26 8:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-22 23:45 New format Intel microcode Daniel J Blueman
2007-03-23 0:43 ` Shaohua Li
2007-03-23 9:43 ` Marcel Holtmann
2007-03-23 9:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-03-26 8:34 ` Marcel Holtmann
2007-03-26 8:52 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2007-06-26 21:42 ` Daniel J Blueman
2007-06-26 23:29 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-28 13:53 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-06-28 14:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-28 15:48 ` Alex Riesen
2007-06-28 17:27 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-06-28 17:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-28 17:54 ` Daniel J Blueman
2007-06-28 15:27 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-28 15:44 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-06-28 22:55 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-06-28 22:23 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-06-28 22:30 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-28 23:09 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-02 8:56 ` Alex Riesen
2007-07-02 17:18 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-07-02 18:22 ` Alex Riesen
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