Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:45:37 +0530 | Subject | Re: RFC: install firmware in a kernel-dependent directory | From | Jaswinder Singh Rajput <> |
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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.
So /lib/firmware is absolutely OK.
-- JSR
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