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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:10:09 +0200 From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org> To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>, jeff@...zik.org, arjan@...radead.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. 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@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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