From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
To: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:01:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D67378C.30506@msgid.tls.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D671667.4000602@suse.com>
25.02.2011 05:39, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
> Every kernel package trying to provide files under /lib/firmware runs
> into problems really quickly with multiple kernels installed.
Which problems?
> This patch moves them to /lib/firmware/$KERNELRELEASE. udev v127's
> firmware.sh looks there first before falling back to /lib/firmware.
This was the way it worked before, -- all fw in kernel-specific dir.
Nowadays it moved to a common place, /lib/firmware, since the blobs
there are not kernel-specific but hardware-specific. And now you
propose to move it back. Why?
/mjt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-25 5:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-25 2:39 [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir Jeff Mahoney
2011-02-25 5:01 ` Michael Tokarev [this message]
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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2008-09-09 14:15 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
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
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