Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750894Ab1BYFBG (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:01:06 -0500 Received: from isrv.corpit.ru ([86.62.121.231]:50627 "EHLO isrv.corpit.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750709Ab1BYFBF (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:01:05 -0500 Message-ID: <4D67378C.30506@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:01:00 +0300 From: Michael Tokarev Organization: Telecom Service, JSC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101227 Icedove/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Mahoney CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir References: <4D671667.4000602@suse.com> In-Reply-To: <4D671667.4000602@suse.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 OpenPGP: id=804465C5 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: 821 Lines: 20 25.02.2011 05:39, Jeff Mahoney wrote: > Every kernel package trying to provide files under /lib/firmware runs > into problems really quickly with multiple kernels installed. Which problems? > This patch moves them to /lib/firmware/$KERNELRELEASE. udev v127's > firmware.sh looks there first before falling back to /lib/firmware. This was the way it worked before, -- all fw in kernel-specific dir. Nowadays it moved to a common place, /lib/firmware, since the blobs there are not kernel-specific but hardware-specific. And now you propose to move it back. Why? /mjt -- 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/