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

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Message-Id: <1221151538.8593.36.camel@macbook.infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:45:38 -0700
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@...driva.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, 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 Thu, 2008-09-11 at 18:39 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> What is wrong with moving the firmware into its own package with its
> own version number?

Nothing. You can do this today, building from the linux-firmware
repository. That repository is starting to contain extra firmware that
vendors are now willing to let us distribute -- where they _weren't_
willing to let us distribute it as part of the kernel.

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

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