From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754711AbYIKC42 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:56:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752382AbYIKC4U (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:56:20 -0400 Received: from BISCAYNE-ONE-STATION.MIT.EDU ([18.7.7.80]:41693 "EHLO biscayne-one-station.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752253AbYIKC4T (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:56:19 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:55:18 -0400 From: Theodore Tso To: Andrew Morton Cc: David Woodhouse , davem@davemloft.net, jeffm@suse.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir Message-ID: <20080911025518.GA23031@mit.edu> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Tso , Andrew Morton , David Woodhouse , davem@davemloft.net, jeffm@suse.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org References: <48C68507.6000609@suse.com> <1221087719.13621.50.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20080910.160505.14060698.davem@davemloft.net> <1221088512.13621.58.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20080910162404.a3208b8f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080910162404.a3208b8f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.00 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 04:24:04PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > A suitable approach might be to copy the files to both /lib/firmware > and to /lib/firmware/$KERNELRELEASE, and to stop copying the files to > /lib/firmware in, oh, 2018 or so.. Or make it be a KCONFIG build option, so that people who are building kernels using the distribution-specific kernel packaging tool can pass in whatever is right for their distribution.... - Ted