Re: Location of firmware files

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 12:02:26AM +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> 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?

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

thanks,

greg k-h


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