linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] firmware: Add /proc/fw_path entry to list the firmware paths

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Date:	Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:40:23 -0400
From:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Dimitris Papastamos <dp@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] firmware: Add /proc/fw_path entry to list the
 firmware paths

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:56:25AM +0100, Dimitris Papastamos wrote:
>> This patch provides the aforementioned procfs file that lists
>> the default firmware paths that are used during firmware lookup.
>>
>> The file contains a white space separated list of paths.
>>
>> There will be another patch on top of this that adds the functionality
>> to modify the paths at runtime.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dp@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
>
> What about /proc/sys/kernel/firmware_path instead?  Isn't that a better
> place for this?

Without painting the bikeshed too many colors, I was wondering if /proc
was the right place for this at all.  Perhaps /sys/kernel/firmware_path
or /sys/firmware/firmware_path?

josh
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