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SubjectRe: RFC: install firmware in a kernel-dependent directory
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Michael Riepe
> <michael.riepe@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Currently, make firmware_install puts all firmware blobs in
>> /lib/firmware. If you have several kernel versions installed, they will
>> overwrite each other's files, which may lead to problems if the blobs
>> eventually change. I think it would be better to use a separate
>> directory for every kernel version, like /lib/firmware/$(uname -r) or
>> /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/firmware (the latter is my favorite).
>>
>> In either case, only a minimal modification in /lib/udev/firmware.sh is
>> required to make it look in the new directory first.
>>
>> Comments?
>
> firmware version depends on hardware version not by kernel (software) version.

are you sure? different firmware could have different interfaces for the
kernel to use.

I don't know if this is a problem in practice (I think I've heard of
this), but there is no reason it couldn't be.

David Lang

> So /lib/firmware is absolutely OK.
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