From: Faidon Liambotis <paravoid@debian.org>
To: Marcel Holtmann <holtmann@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Miller <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 11:29:59 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C8D707.6090801@debian.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1221119068.6309.8.camel@californication>
Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> it is that the Debian maintainer screwed this up. Upstream never
> promoted kernel versioned directories for the firmware. I had a long
> discussion with Dave about it at OLS and using the kernel version is
> just plain wrong. The driver maintainers should version the firmware if
> they break it in an API incompatible way.
>
> To shed some light into the problem with Debian/Ubuntu. They install the
> firmware in /lib/firmware/`uname -r`/ and everytime they bump their ABI
> number, they have to install all the firmware again. This is just
> braindead. Their udev script actually checks /lib/firmware first and
> then the kernel versioned directory. So that is just fine.
I could not find any packages in Debian that contain a
/lib/firmware/$(KERNELRELEASE) directory.
Perhaps this is just an Ubuntu issue?
Regards,
Faidon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-11 8:29 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 [this message]
2008-09-11 16:12 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-11 8:58 ` Frans Pop
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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