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

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Message-ID: <m27i9i9az9.fsf@vador.mandriva.com>
Date:	Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:29:46 +0200
From:	Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@...driva.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	dwmw2@...radead.org, 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

David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> writes:

> > This isn't compatible with the version of udev that people actually have
> > installed, today. And it's also the _wrong_ thing to do.
> > 
> > Firmware really _isn't_ version-specific.
> 
> 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.

We (Mandriva Linux) do too.
Why other distro cannot package firmware separatly for all their kernel
flavors?

Firmware are not version-specific.
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