Message-ID: <4D652498.4090507@lwfinger.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:15:36 -0600
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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To: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
CC: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Sebastien Jan <s-jan@ti.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] WLAN: fix the path to the wl12xx firmwares
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On 02/23/2011 08:54 AM, Luciano Coelho wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 09:41 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
>>
>> I think there are a number of other drivers with embedded pathnames.
> 
> Indeed.  And, as discussed with Johannes on IRC, the / will be just one
> more character in the FW name, regardless of whether it means a
> subdirectory or not.  It's just part of the FW name string.
> 
> When I apply the patch, I just need to brace for the loads of people
> complaining that the FW cannot be found anymore and explain the issue a
> hundred times. ;)

You could keep the old path as a fallback for a couple of cycles and log a
message warning users to move their firmware.

Larry