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

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Date:	Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:50:30 -0400
From:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	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 Friday 12 September 2008, Joseph Fannin wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 03:25:43PM -0700, David Woodhouse wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 15:07 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>
><snip>
>
>> Now, can we _please_ stop being bloody stupid? If there are _real_
>> problems, like the one I fixed with commit 1cede1af last week, then I'm
>> perfectly happy to deal with them. But stop making crap up.
>
>I CAN'T INSTALL MORE THAN ONE KERNEL PACKAGE > v2.6.26.
>
>IT'S NOT IMAGINARY.
>
>IT USED TO WORK AND YOU BROKE IT.
>
I've been building my own, and currently have about 10 kernels newer than 
2.6.26 sitting in my /boot partition, and they all work.  I'd suggest you 
investigate how you are maintaining your .config(uration)

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