Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir | From | Marcel Holtmann <> | Date | Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:12:41 +0200 |
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Hi Faidon,
> > it is that the Debian maintainer screwed this up. Upstream never > > promoted kernel versioned directories for the firmware. I had a long > > discussion with Dave about it at OLS and using the kernel version is > > just plain wrong. The driver maintainers should version the firmware if > > they break it in an API incompatible way. > > > > To shed some light into the problem with Debian/Ubuntu. They install the > > firmware in /lib/firmware/`uname -r`/ and everytime they bump their ABI > > number, they have to install all the firmware again. This is just > > braindead. Their udev script actually checks /lib/firmware first and > > then the kernel versioned directory. So that is just fine. > I could not find any packages in Debian that contain a > /lib/firmware/$(KERNELRELEASE) directory. > > Perhaps this is just an Ubuntu issue?
I looked through my Debian boxes and you are right. Sorry for this. I was under the assumption Ubuntu took the Debian package, but it seems that they even modified that one. So this issue is than distros derived from Ubuntu and _not_ Debian (unless udev is unmodified).
Regards
Marcel
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