From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755361AbYIKNuk (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:50:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751380AbYIKNub (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:50:31 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:57442 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751167AbYIKNua (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:50:30 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:37:17 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Andrew Morton Cc: Jeff Mahoney , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir Message-ID: <20080911133717.GA3293@kroah.com> References: <48C68507.6000609@suse.com> <20080910153507.979131ce.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080910153507.979131ce.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 03:35:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:15:35 -0400 > Jeff Mahoney wrote: > > > Every kernel package trying to provide files under /lib/firmware runs > > into problems really quickly with multiple kernels installed, especially > > with respect to distribution package tracking of the files. > > For how long has this problem existed? Since the firmware target got added to the kernel, so it's a 2.6.27 thing, no need for -stable here, older kernels do not have this problem. thanks, greg k-h