linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3 v2] firmware: Add /proc/firmware

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Date:	Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:07:31 +0100
From:	Dimitris Papastamos <dp@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3 v2] firmware: Add /proc/firmware_path entry to list
	the firmware paths

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:48:33AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 01:52:55PM +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.
> 
> Paths can have whitespaces :(
> 
> How about using the "universal" path seperator of ':' that shells are
> used to using?  Yeah, it gets messy if you have a ':' in a path, but
> from what I can tell, only the openSUSE build system does looney things
> like that.

Sure I can do that, however, could you comment on Ming's comments?  Is
this patchset something we find useful at the moment as regards listing
and/or updating the firmware path list.

> > There will be another patch on top of this that adds the functionality
> > to modify the paths at runtime.
> 
> Did I miss that patch somewhere?

That patch is here:
	http://opensource.wolfsonmicro.com/~dp/patches/firmware/0004-firmware-Add-write-support-to-proc-fw_path.patch

However I've not rebased that patch on top of linux-next and I did not
send it for review as it seems that it may be a more sensible solution
to pass this as a kernel parameter.

Let me know what you think and I'll squeeze some time this weekend
to look at this.

Thanks,
Dimitris
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