Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:42:20 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir | From | David Miller <> |
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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:36:56 -0700
> 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.
That's not what I've heard from people more clueful from me.
For example, Herbert Xu (CC:'d) told me that because of this directory usage, his wireless card couldn't find it's firmware with current kernels.
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