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

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Date:	Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:24:04 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, jeffm@...e.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:15:11 -0700
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 16:05 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > 
> > Tell that to every Debian and Debian derived system on the planet.
> > 
> > To my knowledge, it is only fedora and possibly one or two other dists
> > that put the firmware files in a unary /lib/firmware location, rather
> > than a versioned /lib/firmware/$KERNELRELASE one.
> 
> So every time they upgrade from one kernel to the next, do they
> automatically run b43-fwcutter again to make a new copy of the firmware,
> for the new kernel?
> 
> Or if they use QLogic SCSI cards, do they download a new (but identical)
> version of the firmware each time they upgrade their kernel?
> 
> It sounds like a daft arrangement to me -- although of course it's
> possible for the packager to do whatever they like, by overriding
> $(INSTALL_FW_PATH) in their package build.
> 
> It's definitely not something we should be doing upstream though.
> 

It all seems a bit academic.  Breaking pre-v127 udev is a showstopper.

A suitable approach might be to copy the files to both /lib/firmware
and to /lib/firmware/$KERNELRELEASE, and to stop copying the files to
/lib/firmware in, oh, 2018 or so..

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