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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir
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    On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 16:05 -0700, David Miller wrote:
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    > 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.

    So every time they upgrade from one kernel to the next, do they
    automatically run b43-fwcutter again to make a new copy of the firmware,
    for the new kernel?

    Or if they use QLogic SCSI cards, do they download a new (but identical)
    version of the firmware each time they upgrade their kernel?

    It sounds like a daft arrangement to me -- although of course it's
    possible for the packager to do whatever they like, by overriding
    $(INSTALL_FW_PATH) in their package build.

    It's definitely not something we should be doing upstream though.

    --
    David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
    David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation



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