From: Dimitris Papastamos <dp@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] firmware: Add /proc/fw_path entry to list the firmware paths
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:41:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121010144145.GA26681@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121010133655.GA11678@kroah.com>
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:36:55PM +0900, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:56:25AM +0100, Dimitris Papastamos wrote:
> > This patch provides the aforementioned procfs file that lists
> > the default firmware paths that are used during firmware lookup.
> >
> > The file contains a white space separated list of paths.
> >
> > There will be another patch on top of this that adds the functionality
> > to modify the paths at runtime.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dp@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
>
> What about /proc/sys/kernel/firmware_path instead? Isn't that a better
> place for this?
>
> greg k-h
Btw, a primitive set of patches along with write support are stashed
at http://opensource.wolfsonmicro.com/~dp/patches/firmware/ - will clean
these up and place the file at /proc/sys/kernel/firmware_path and
will send out a new version of the patch set.
Thanks,
Dimitris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-10 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-10 10:56 [PATCH 0/2] Expose firmware paths via procfs Dimitris Papastamos
2012-10-10 10:56 ` [PATCH 1/2] firmware: Convert firmware path setup from an array to a list Dimitris Papastamos
2012-10-22 15:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-23 9:43 ` Dimitris Papastamos
2012-10-10 10:56 ` [PATCH 2/2] firmware: Add /proc/fw_path entry to list the firmware paths Dimitris Papastamos
2012-10-10 13:36 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-10 13:40 ` Josh Boyer
2012-10-10 13:45 ` Dimitris Papastamos
2012-10-10 14:41 ` Dimitris Papastamos [this message]
2012-10-10 15:14 ` [PATCH 0/2] Expose firmware paths via procfs Ming Lei
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2012-10-09 22:50 [PATCH 2/2] firmware: Add /proc/fw_path entry to list the firmware paths Dimitris Papastamos
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