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Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 21:03:56 +0200 From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org> To: Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, aoliva@...hat.com, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@...l.com>, kay.sievers@...y.org, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option Hi Michael, >> Again, I don't plan to break any setup. I actually do think it is a >> good idea to group firmware files in subdirectories in /lib/firmware, >> but this subdirectory name doesn't belong in the kernel. >> >> We will update udev to read the driver name and look into /lib/ >> firmware/<driver>/<filename> and /lib/firmware/<filename> for the >> firmware file. >> >> Then we will set a date and note it in the future remove document. >> Something like 12 month after an updated udev has been released. This >> gives the distribution two generations time to update udev and kernel >> packages. > > How are you going to handle multiple versions of the firmware for > one driver? > How does one switch between versions (changing config files is not > acceptable)? that is your point of view. Why is changing a config file not acceptable? 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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