Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir

Faidon Liambotis
2008-09-11T08:29:47Z

Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> it is that the Debian maintainer screwed this up. Upstream never
> promoted kernel versioned directories for the firmware. I had a long
> discussion with Dave about it at OLS and using the kernel version is
> just plain wrong. The driver maintainers should version the firmware if
> they break it in an API incompatible way.
>
> To shed some light into the problem with Debian/Ubuntu. They install the
> firmware in /lib/firmware/`uname -r`/ and everytime they bump their ABI
> number, they have to install all the firmware again. This is just
> braindead. Their udev script actually checks /lib/firmware first and
> then the kernel versioned directory. So that is just fine.
I could not find any packages in Debian that contain a
/lib/firmware/$(KERNELRELEASE) directory.

Perhaps this is just an Ubuntu issue?

Regards,
Faidon