From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian King Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:27:12 +0000 Subject: Re: Location of firmware files Message-Id: <40D8B240.5060501@us.ibm.com> List-Id: References: <40ACDCE3.5040500@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <40ACDCE3.5040500@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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? Sounds fine to me. Anyone have any opinions regarding microcode/firmware file naming conventions, or is this something that will be difficult to standardize? -- Brian King eServer Storage I/O IBM Linux Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------- 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