From: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Location of firmware files
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:51:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40D8A9D5.5090207@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40ACDCE3.5040500@us.ibm.com>
Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Marco,
>
>
>>>Getting back to the following thread regarding the proper location
>>>for firmware files:
>>
>>FYI, I applied this patch to the debian package, because some firmwares
>>are needed before / is mounted.
>
>
> 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.
--
Brian King
eServer Storage I/O
IBM Linux Technology Center
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-22 21:51 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 [this message]
2004-06-22 22:02 ` Marcel Holtmann
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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