Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:24:04 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir |
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On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:15:11 -0700 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 16:05 -0700, David Miller wrote: > > > > 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 > $(INSTALL_FW_PATH) in their package build. > > It's definitely not something we should be doing upstream though. >
It all seems a bit academic. Breaking pre-v127 udev is a showstopper.
A suitable approach might be to copy the files to both /lib/firmware and to /lib/firmware/$KERNELRELEASE, and to stop copying the files to /lib/firmware in, oh, 2018 or so..
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