From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752627AbYIKHYm (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:24:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751682AbYIKHYd (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:24:33 -0400 Received: from divinity.tty.gr ([212.89.179.170]:38371 "EHLO mail.tty.gr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751609AbYIKHYc (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:24:32 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 2986 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:24:32 EDT Message-ID: <48C8BC17.5050508@debian.org> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:35:03 +0300 From: Faidon Liambotis Organization: Debian User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070329) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Miller CC: 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 References: <48C68507.6000609@suse.com> <1221087719.13621.50.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20080910.160505.14060698.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20080910.160505.14060698.davem@davemloft.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Miller wrote: >> Firmware really _isn't_ version-specific. > > Tell that to every Debian and Debian derived system on the planet. > > To my knowledge, it is only fedora and possibly one or two other dists > that put the firmware files in a unary /lib/firmware location, rather > than a versioned /lib/firmware/$KERNELRELASE one. [not speaking on behalf of the project, the kernel team or the respective maintainers] Apparently and afaik you are misinformed: $ dpkg -L firmware-bnx2 (or [1]) ... /lib/firmware/bnx2-06-4.0.5.fw /lib/firmware/bnx2-09-4.0.5.fw ... $ dpkg -L firmware-iwlwifi (or [2]) ... /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-4965-1.ucode /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode ... $ dpkg -L firmware-qlogic (or [3]) ... /lib/firmware/ql2100_fw.bin /lib/firmware/ql2200_fw.bin /lib/firmware/ql2300_fw.bin /lib/firmware/ql2322_fw.bin /lib/firmware/ql2400_fw.bin /lib/firmware/ql2500_fw.bin ... etc. for the other firmware packages[4]. Regards, Faidon 1: http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/firmware-bnx2/filelist 2: http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/firmware-iwlwifi/filelist 3: http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/firmware-qlogic/filelist 4: http://packages.debian.org/firmware