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

Linus Torvalds
2008-09-11T16:00:06Z

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Frans Pop wrote:
>
> Just keep on ignoring current issues.

Aren't _you_ the one who are ignoring current issues?

The fact is, _currently_ everybody looks in /lib/firmware. The fact is,
most people don't want millions of copies of the firmware (one copy for
each kernel they compile - think about those of us who compile kernels
every day).

I actually like a release-specific firmware directory, but I think it's
the *vendor* kernel that should do it, not the normal kernel. The _vendor_
should put its firmware files in some vendor-specific place, and then add
that to the end of the firmware loading path.

Notice? The vendor can do that. The generic kernel can NOT - since the
generic kernel cannot impact the firmware loading paths of all the various
distros.

So all of the noise in this whole discussion has been totally inane and
idiotic.

Linus