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Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi> writes:

> Does the kernel look for modules in versioned, then non-versioned
> directories, in that order? More importantly, does it even attempt
> looking in the versioned directory at all?

/lib/udev/firmware.agent does this:

FIRMWARE_DIRS="/lib/firmware/$(uname -r) /lib/firmware /usr/local/lib/firmware /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware"

for DIR in $FIRMWARE_DIRS; do
    [ -e "$DIR/$FIRMWARE" ] || continue



Bjørn