Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:29:59 +0300 | From | Faidon Liambotis <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir |
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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
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