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Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 11:18:32 +0100 From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> To: Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@...com>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add $KERNELRELEASE to firmware install path On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 12:15 +0200, Michal Marek wrote: > > On 5.5.2011 19:39, Arun Sharma wrote: > > Useful in the presence of multiple kernels with different > > firmware versions. > > The changelog should also include the udev version that is able to find > the firmware there (v127, August 2008). FWIW, SUSE has been using this > patch since about that time, but we forgot to push this :-|. Anyway No, this is fundamentally broken. Do not do it. The firmware lives in /lib/firmware, not in /lib/firmware/$KERNELVERSION There is *no* reason to move it there. If a given firmware file changes in an incompatible way, it needs to have had a new filename *anyway* (think of it like a new soname on a shared library). And we shouldn't be updating the legacy firmware images in the kernel *anyway*; nobody should be using those any more. They were *purely* for backward compatibility. Everyone should be shipping the linux-firmware.git images instead. -- dwmw2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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