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

Greg KH
2008-09-11T20:21:00Z

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:45:38AM -0700, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 18:39 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> > What is wrong with moving the firmware into its own package with its
> > own version number?
>
> Nothing. You can do this today, building from the linux-firmware
> repository. That repository is starting to contain extra firmware that
> vendors are now willing to let us distribute -- where they _weren't_
> willing to let us distribute it as part of the kernel.

That's great and wonderful and has absolutely nothing to do with the
real problem we have right now in 2.6.27-rc.

Jeff's patch is one proposed solution for the problem, what's the
objection to it? Reliance on a udev change to catch this as well? It
looks like SuSE and Ubuntu already handle this, and I'm sure Fedora can
as well, right?

If the udev script requirement is a problem, then how does anyone else
suggest to solve the problem that we currently have with the existing
code?

thanks,

greg k-h