Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:36:56 -0700 |
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On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 16:24 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> > Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:15:11 -0700 > > > It's definitely not something we should be doing upstream though. > > So you think it's ok that every Debian user has to learn this > magic incantation just to use current kernels?
They don't. Debian uses firmware from /lib/firmware if it doesn't exist in /lib/firmware/$(version) -- so they can install to the normal location quite happily, and it should work just fine.
-- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation
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