Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. | From | Marcel Holtmann <> | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:54:00 +0200 |
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Hi Linus,
> Requiring you to write udevd scripts for that sounds insane. I wouldn't > even know where to start. > > So kernel-specific directories do make sense. As does the whole "I don't > want to handle the pain that is udev scripts".
you don't have to. We extend udev once and then it will always work. As mentioned before, Ubuntu is already doing this. They never bothered to submit this upstream and I didn't really care since I have all my firmware files in /lib/firmware and had no need to add versions to it.
Regards
Marcel
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