Messages in this thread | | | From | Jon Masters <> | Date | Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:01:25 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC] request_firmware examples and MODULE_FIRMWARE |
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On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 17:10 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Jon, > > > > > actually it has never been really a filename. It was a simple pattern > > > > that the initial hotplug script and later the udev script mapped > > > > 1:1 to a filename on your filesystem. If you check the mailing list > > > > archives of LKML and linux-hotplug you will see that I always resisted > > > > in allowing drivers to include a directory path in that call. A couple > > > > of people tried this and it is not what it was meant to be. > > > > That's fine. I agree with the idea - *but* it strikes me that we don't > > really have a co-ordinated database of what module "patterns" map to > > what on-disk firmware, aside from hotplug/udev scripts. We need to > > co-ordinate this stuff a lot more. Or am I missing something? I'm happy > > to setup a database on the kerneltools.org wiki if that's useful... > > that is true, but it is actually not a problem of the kernel and your > proposed MODULE_FIRMWARE patch. However it might be a good idea to start > something like this. It will also help to see what is actually needed.
I reali[sz]e it's not a direct problem, but it does need fixing. I'll spend some time over the weekend and then send an update about that.
Jon.
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