Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Buesch <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option | Date | Sun, 25 May 2008 20:53:36 +0200 |
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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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