From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Location of firmware files
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 18:16:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1085076978.4327.188.camel@pegasus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40ACDCE3.5040500@us.ibm.com>
Hi Marco,
> > I won't vote for checking two places. Let's see what the LSB says and
> > choose the best place.
> Why not? If a firmware file is needed at boot time before /usr is
> available then it has to go in /lib, else it has to go in /usr/share.
> It's not like using test -e is hard...
that's not the point. What if you have two different firmware files in
two different locations? This makes debugging of newbie problems very
hard. I like to have one location and then go for it.
However I think /usr/share/ is wrong, because maybe for different
architectures you need different firmwares and /usr/share/ can be a
unique mount point accross architectures. I think /usr/lib/ is much
better in this case.
Regards
Marcel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-20 18:16 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 [this message]
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
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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