Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:52:48 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: New format Intel microcode... |
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Marcel Holtmann wrote: > that is the whole point. The slash was never meant to be used. It was > designed to take a filename or a pattern that will be later matched by > userspace. However some developers are now trying to abuse this since > the simple firmware helper script matches this directly to a filename > (and directory in this case) on the disk. > > Putting a slash in the request_firmware() call now enforces a > subdirectory
I don't see how this follows from the former. Userspace is free to translate the kernel string into anything it wants, even a simple replacement of / with _. So I don't see how this "enforces" a subdirectory. Firmware gets a namespace basically, and a / is a logical namespace separator. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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