From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcel Holtmann Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 08:14:16 +0000 Subject: Re: Location of firmware files Message-Id: <1087978456.4209.64.camel@pegasus> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-k/85/Wu5KAi4U1Dfr9Ox" List-Id: References: <40ACDCE3.5040500@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <40ACDCE3.5040500@us.ibm.com> To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org --=-k/85/Wu5KAi4U1Dfr9Ox Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 --=-k/85/Wu5KAi4U1Dfr9Ox Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=patch Content-Type: text/x-patch; name=patch; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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) --=-k/85/Wu5KAi4U1Dfr9Ox-- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel