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

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Message-Id: <1221089816.13621.61.camel@macbook.infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:36:56 -0700
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	jeffm@...e.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir

On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 16:24 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:15:11 -0700
> 
> > It's definitely not something we should be doing upstream though.
> 
> So you think it's ok that every Debian user has to learn this
> magic incantation just to use current kernels?

They don't. Debian uses firmware from /lib/firmware if it doesn't exist
in /lib/firmware/$(version) -- so they can install to the normal
location quite happily, and it should work just fine.

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@...el.com                              Intel Corporation

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