From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: absolute firmware paths
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:30:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1215160225.23812.8.camel@violet.holtmann.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200806302204.05544.seb@highlab.com>
Hi Sebastian,
> > Also since you are talking about development here. So what has this to
> > do with the upstream kernel and why do we need it there. You can always
> > install your own firmware.sh file that does special things in case files
> > are requested for your driver. And actually you don't even have to
> > overwrite firmware.sh for it. Simply install a new udev rule for only
> > that driver.
>
> Yeah, our own udev rule and our own firmware.sh is one of the options
> we're considering. It'd be easy to do. I just think it's a generally
> good idea and I thought that upstream udev might be interested.
using your own firmware.sh and an udev rule is so simply. So don't
bother the kernel with any changes. Also the kernel does not make policy
decisions. The /lib/firmware location is a userspace policy.
Regards
Marcel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-04 8:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-01 4:04 absolute firmware paths Sebastian Kuzminsky
2008-07-01 5:20 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-07-04 3:04 ` Sebastian Kuzminsky
2008-07-04 4:50 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-07-04 6:20 ` Sebastian Kuzminsky
2008-07-04 8:30 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2008-07-05 16:13 ` Sebastian Kuzminsky
2008-07-05 17:24 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-07-05 18:42 ` Sebastian Kuzminsky
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