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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option
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On Sunday 25 May 2008 20:46:00 Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> we can change these things. We do it all the time.

Doing something stupid all the time is not that of a good idea.

> Again, I don't plan to break any setup. I actually do think it is a
> good idea to group firmware files in subdirectories in /lib/firmware,
> but this subdirectory name doesn't belong in the kernel.
>
> We will update udev to read the driver name and look into /lib/
> firmware/<driver>/<filename> and /lib/firmware/<filename> for the
> firmware file.
>
> Then we will set a date and note it in the future remove document.
> Something like 12 month after an updated udev has been released. This
> gives the distribution two generations time to update udev and kernel
> packages.

How are you going to handle multiple versions of the firmware for one driver?
How does one switch between versions (changing config files is not acceptable)?

--
Greetings Michael.


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