Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755040AbYGOQhT (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:37:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755758AbYGOQhE (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:37:04 -0400 Received: from hpsmtp-eml19.kpnxchange.com ([213.75.38.84]:24732 "EHLO hpsmtp-eml19.kpnxchange.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753763AbYGOQhD (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:37:03 -0400 From: Frans Pop To: Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:36:56 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Linus Torvalds , jeff@garzik.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1216077806.27455.85.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <200807151757.10626.elendil@planet.nl> <20080715090441.478c2287@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20080715090441.478c2287@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200807151836.57983.elendil@planet.nl> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Jul 2008 16:37:00.0521 (UTC) FILETIME=[013CDD90:01C8E699] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 999 Lines: 21 On Tuesday 15 July 2008, you wrote: > > You release 2.6.27-rc2 and I build it. Ouch! It fails to install, at > > least if I want to install it _alongside_ 2.6.27-rc1 or other kernels > > (which I do!). Why does it fail? Because dpkg's package management > > does not allow one package to overwrite files already "owned" by > > another package. > > question: how do you deal with this with the dozens of drivers that use > request_firmware() even before yesterday ? > the answer is critical in how to deal with this "new" situation as > well ;-) For Debian packages that's in the part of the mail you snipped. The simple answer for my current use of dep-pkg is: I don't _have_ any hardware that requires firmware that's split out with current kernels. -- 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/