Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758763AbYGOUKP (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:10:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754019AbYGOUKD (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:10:03 -0400 Received: from senator.holtmann.net ([87.106.208.187]:42487 "EHLO mail.holtmann.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753621AbYGOUKB (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:10:01 -0400 Subject: Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. From: Marcel Holtmann To: David Woodhouse Cc: Linus Torvalds , Frans Pop , jeff@garzik.org, arjan@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1216151866.26991.4.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> References: <1216077806.27455.85.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20080714164119.99c33d5b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080714165956.7fe2d4ee@infradead.org> <487C0365.5030203@garzik.org> <487C0365.5030203@garzik.org> <200807151757.10626.elendil@planet.nl> <1216149637.27242.65.camel@violet.holtmann.net> <1216150616.27455.377.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <1216151866.26991.4.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:10:09 +0200 Message-Id: <1216152609.27242.99.camel@violet.holtmann.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1043 Lines: 28 Hi David, > > So kernel-specific directories do make sense. As does the whole "I > > don't want to handle the pain that is udev scripts". > > I'm not violently opposed to kernel-specific directories. Ubuntu does it > that way already, and it may well make sense. I'm not sure it's really > necessary either, but it's an option. then lets get the udev extension merged upstream (since it doesn't do any harm anyway) and then install everything in /lib/firmware/`uname -r` and see how that works out. So Ubuntu will obviously not break since it does this already. For Fedora deploying new packages for 8 and 9 should not be a problem at all once the maintainer is convinced that it is a good idea. They update packages all the time anyway. For the other distros, I don't know. Regards Marcel -- 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/