Re: Location of firmware files

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

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Hi Greg,

> > 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?
> 
> No argument from me.  We can get the LSB to add this after we implement
> it (they document current usage.)

then please apply the attached patch ;)

Regards

Marcel


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diff -urN hotplug-2004_03_29/etc/hotplug/firmware.agent hotplug-2004_03_29-mh/etc/hotplug/firmware.agent
--- hotplug-2004_03_29/etc/hotplug/firmware.agent	2004-03-26 23:34:34.000000000 +0100
+++ hotplug-2004_03_29-mh/etc/hotplug/firmware.agent	2004-06-23 10:11:05.000000000 +0200
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 # DEBUG=yes export DEBUG
 
 # directory of the firmware files
-FIRMWARE_DIR=/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware
+FIRMWARE_DIR=/lib/firmware
 
 # mountpoint of sysfs
 SYSFS=$(sed -n 's/^.* \([^ ]*\) sysfs .*$/\1/p' /proc/mounts)