Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754888AbYGEMKS (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 08:10:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751523AbYGEMKD (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 08:10:03 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:35671 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751310AbYGEMKA (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 08:10:00 -0400 Message-ID: <486F6494.8020108@firstfloor.org> Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:09:56 +0200 From: Andi Kleen User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20060911) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olivier Galibert , Andi Kleen , Takashi Iwai , David Woodhouse , Hannes Reinecke , Theodore Tso , Jeff Garzik , David Miller , hugh@veritas.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, mchan@broadcom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" References: <486E2260.5050503@garzik.org> <1215178035.10393.763.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080704141014.GA23215@mit.edu> <486E3622.1000900@suse.de> <1215182557.10393.808.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080704231322.GA4410@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <20080705105317.GA44773@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <486F596C.8050109@firstfloor.org> <20080705120221.GC44773@dspnet.fr.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20080705120221.GC44773@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 832 Lines: 21 Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 01:22:20PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: >> Many distribution have some way for separate kernel module packages. >> It's essentially the same problem so it should be already solved >> in some way. > > Errr, no. Modules go in /lib/modules/`uname -r`, so no conflict. Well that's the only sane way to store the firmware anyways (otherwise you could never keep kernel versions which need different firmware installed) While the current code doesn't do that there have been proposals for that and I assume/hope they will be acted on. -Andi -- 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/