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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aoliva@redhat.com,
	Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com>,
	kay.sievers@vrfy.org, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 14:16:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080525141638.65111d64@core> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200805251414.04509.mb@bu3sch.de>

> What if I want 2 or 3 different firmware versions installed at once?
> I'll have to play dirty tricks with the filenames then and put several
> unrelated firmware versions into one directory. That's going to be a mess.

You add the desired feature to udev, or use symlinks. Hardly a "mess".

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-25 13:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-23 13:44 [PATCH 1/3] firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 2/3] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 13:50   ` [PATCH 2/3] firmware: convert korg1212 driver to use firmware loader exclusively David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 14:56     ` Takashi Iwai
2008-05-23 14:59       ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 16:41   ` [PATCH 2/3] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-23 17:13     ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 18:07     ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 18:11       ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-24 14:46     ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-24 15:22       ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-24 15:25         ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-24 15:34           ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-24 18:18             ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-24 19:23               ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-24 19:31                 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25  9:30               ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25  9:49                 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 11:54                   ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 12:14                     ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 13:16                       ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-05-25 13:46                         ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 18:07                           ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 11:49                 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 11:59                   ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 13:12                     ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 13:40                       ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 18:12                         ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 18:18                           ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 18:28                             ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-26  8:57                           ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 12:05                   ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 13:19                     ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 13:45                       ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 18:15                         ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 18:27                           ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 18:34                             ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 14:13                       ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 14:18                         ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-25 14:22                           ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 18:23                         ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 18:39                           ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 18:46                             ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 18:53                               ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 19:03                                 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 19:21                                   ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-26  8:52                               ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-25 17:17                   ` Alexandre Oliva
2008-05-25 18:49                     ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 19:53                       ` Alan Cox
2008-05-26  3:30                       ` Alexandre Oliva
2008-05-25 18:49                     ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-25 19:01                       ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-25 19:09                         ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-26  3:13                       ` Alexandre Oliva
2008-05-26 12:53                         ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-26 13:08                           ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-26 17:09                           ` Alexandre Oliva
2008-05-26 17:11                             ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-23 14:53 ` [PATCH 1/3] firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image Takashi Iwai
2008-05-23 14:58   ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 15:19     ` Takashi Iwai
2008-05-23 15:25       ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 15:33     ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 17:21       ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 19:14       ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 19:42         ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 20:31           ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 21:04             ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 23:28             ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 14:56 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 15:11   ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 15:00 ` Clemens Ladisch
2008-05-23 15:20   ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 15:32   ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 16:21 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-23 16:37   ` David Dillow
2008-05-23 16:38   ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-05-23 16:44     ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-23 16:53       ` Rene Herman
2008-05-23 17:06         ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-23 17:49   ` David Woodhouse

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