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Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:09:56 +0200 From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> To: Olivier Galibert <galibert@...ox.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, hugh@...itas.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com, mchan@...adcom.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 01:22:20PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: >> Many distribution have some way for separate kernel module packages. >> It's essentially the same problem so it should be already solved >> in some way. > > Errr, no. Modules go in /lib/modules/`uname -r`, so no conflict. Well that's the only sane way to store the firmware anyways (otherwise you could never keep kernel versions which need different firmware installed) While the current code doesn't do that there have been proposals for that and I assume/hope they will be acted on. -Andi -- 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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