linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir

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Date:	Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:01:00 +0300
From:	Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
To:	Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir

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
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