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

David Miller
2008-09-10T23:42:35Z

From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:36:56 -0700

> On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 16:24 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
> > Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:15:11 -0700
> >
> > > It's definitely not something we should be doing upstream though.
> >
> > So you think it's ok that every Debian user has to learn this
> > magic incantation just to use current kernels?
>
> They don't. Debian uses firmware from /lib/firmware if it doesn't exist
> in /lib/firmware/$(version) -- so they can install to the normal
> location quite happily, and it should work just fine.

That's not what I've heard from people more clueful from me.

For example, Herbert Xu (CC:'d) told me that because of this directory
usage, his wireless card couldn't find it's firmware with current
kernels.