From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Location of firmware files
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:02:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1087941746.4209.40.camel@pegasus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40ACDCE3.5040500@us.ibm.com>
Hi Brian,
> > as I already argued I am not really happy with having two locations for
> > the firmware files. Lets agree on one. We have /lib/modules/ for our
> > kernel modules and so I think /lib/firmware/ is also fine. What does the
> > LSB says about it?
>
> The LSB doesn't say much in this respect. I had a discussion on this a while
> back on the FHS list:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_idh01284
>
> The result of this discussion suggested placing them in somewhere in /lib.
> /lib/drivername was suggested, but it was brought up outside this thread
> that this could cause problems for devices that can use multiple drivers,
> such as some scsi devices.
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?
Regards
Marcel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-22 22:02 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 [this message]
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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