Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:55:18 +0800 | Subject | Re: udev breakages - was: Re: Need of an ".async_probe()" type of callback at driver's core - Was: Re: [PATCH] [media] drxk: change it to use request_firmware_nowait() | From | Ming Lei <> |
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On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 2:33 AM, Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com> wrote:
> > FWIW (and probably that's not much), the NixOS[0] distro doesn't currently > use /lib/firmware. There is no /lib directory by default on NixOS, instead > we create a new symlink tree representing the current system on each system > change and symlink /run/current-system to that tree. We currently build > udev/systemd with the --with-firmware-path=/run/current-system/firmware > configuration-time option, but we also patch module-init-tools and kmod to > respect the $MODULE_DIR env var and may do the same for firmware in the > future. The way we do things has significant advantages (or at least we like > to think so), but we already have exceptions for /bin/sh and /usr/bin/env, > so I suspect we'll probably add in /lib/firmware if this functionality moves > into the kernel.
The kernel parameter for customizing firmware search path will be added, so you use can pass your search path from kernel command too.
Thanks, -- Ming Lei
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