Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:15:11 -0700 |
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On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 16:05 -0700, David Miller wrote: > > Tell that to every Debian and Debian derived system on the planet. > > To my knowledge, it is only fedora and possibly one or two other dists > that put the firmware files in a unary /lib/firmware location, rather > than a versioned /lib/firmware/$KERNELRELASE one.
So every time they upgrade from one kernel to the next, do they automatically run b43-fwcutter again to make a new copy of the firmware, for the new kernel?
Or if they use QLogic SCSI cards, do they download a new (but identical) version of the firmware each time they upgrade their kernel?
It sounds like a daft arrangement to me -- although of course it's possible for the packager to do whatever they like, by overriding $(INSTALL_FW_PATH) in their package build.
It's definitely not something we should be doing upstream though.
-- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation
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