From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754311AbYIKI3r (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:29:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752015AbYIKI3j (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:29:39 -0400 Received: from divinity.tty.gr ([212.89.179.170]:48940 "EHLO mail.tty.gr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751797AbYIKI3i (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:29:38 -0400 Message-ID: <48C8D707.6090801@debian.org> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:29:59 +0300 From: Faidon Liambotis Organization: Debian User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070329) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcel Holtmann CC: David Miller , 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: <1221087719.13621.50.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20080910.160505.14060698.davem@davemloft.net> <1221088512.13621.58.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20080910.162423.40167601.davem@davemloft.net> <1221119068.6309.8.camel@californication> In-Reply-To: <1221119068.6309.8.camel@californication> 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 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