From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
To: Marcel Holtmann <holtmann@linux.intel.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, dwmw2@infradead.org, jeffm@suse.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:58:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200809111058.42362.elendil@planet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1221119068.6309.8.camel@californication>
Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> it is that the Debian maintainer screwed this up.
WRONG! NOT TRUE! FUD!
The Debian maintainer has done nothing of the kind.
> To shed some light into the problem with Debian/Ubuntu. They install the
> firmware in /lib/firmware/`uname -r`/
Debian does no such thing! It may be that Ubuntu does this, but that does
NOT mean that Debian does too.
Feel free to examine any of the packages here and check where they install
their firmware files:
http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=sid&searchon=names&keywords=firmware
Examples:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/firmware-qlogic/filelist
http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/firmware-bnx2/filelist
> Problem comes when installing let say 2.6.27 since then the firmware
> will be looked up in /lib/firmware/ and /lib/firmware/2.6.27/ and
> actually it will not be found. Since it is in /lib/firmware/2.6.26-xx/
> or something similar.
>
> So having the kernel install everything in /lib/firmware works just fine
> with every distro. However looking for firmware that is not shipped with
> the kernel, we have a problem since Debian/Ubuntu just not installs it
> in the right directory. And there is nothing the kernel can do about it
> since it will not touch firmware it doesn't ship. The distro has to fix
> their firmware or the users have to place a copy in /lib/firmware/ where
> it actually should have been in the first place.
This is a ridiculously simplified view of the issue. Why can't you at
least acknowledge that people were faced with a real problem _without_
proper guidance, support or transition path from their upstream source
and made their best effort to solve that issue.
Note that this thread was started by someone from Suse, not Debian or
Ubuntu.
Cheers,
FJP
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-11 8:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-09 14:15 [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir Jeff Mahoney
2008-09-10 22:35 ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-11 13:37 ` Greg KH
2008-09-10 23:01 ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-10 23:05 ` David Miller
2008-09-10 23:15 ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-10 23:24 ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-11 2:55 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-10 23:24 ` David Miller
2008-09-10 23:36 ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-10 23:42 ` David Miller
2008-09-11 0:23 ` Herbert Xu
2008-09-11 0:39 ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-11 7:44 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-11 8:13 ` Jeff Mahoney
2008-09-11 16:09 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-11 8:29 ` Faidon Liambotis
2008-09-11 16:12 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-11 8:58 ` Frans Pop [this message]
2008-09-11 16:16 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-11 8:43 ` Frans Pop
2008-09-11 9:52 ` Frans Pop
2008-09-11 14:50 ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-11 15:24 ` Frans Pop
2008-09-11 15:31 ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-11 15:49 ` Frans Pop
2008-09-11 15:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-11 16:32 ` Frans Pop
2008-09-11 17:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-11 18:24 ` Frans Pop
2008-09-11 16:01 ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-11 4:00 ` David Newall
2008-09-11 6:35 ` Faidon Liambotis
2008-09-11 7:15 ` Jeff Mahoney
2008-09-11 13:38 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-11 14:36 ` Jeff Mahoney
2008-09-11 16:29 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-11 16:20 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-11 11:29 ` Thierry Vignaud
2008-09-11 13:40 ` Greg KH
2008-09-11 16:39 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-11 16:45 ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-11 20:18 ` Greg KH
2008-09-11 20:15 ` Greg KH
2008-09-11 20:38 ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-11 20:57 ` Greg KH
2008-09-11 21:15 ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-11 22:07 ` Greg KH
2008-09-11 22:25 ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-12 8:39 ` Joseph Fannin
2008-09-12 13:50 ` Gene Heskett
2008-09-12 14:32 ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-12 20:24 ` Kai Henningsen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-02-25 2:39 Jeff Mahoney
2011-02-25 5:01 ` Michael Tokarev
2011-02-25 15:03 ` Jeff Mahoney
2011-02-25 16:54 ` David Woodhouse
2011-03-01 0:48 ` Andrew Morton
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