Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:40:42 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir |
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On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 01:29:46PM +0200, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes: > > > > This isn't compatible with the version of udev that people actually have > > > installed, today. And it's also the _wrong_ thing to do. > > > > > > Firmware really _isn't_ version-specific. > > > > Tell that to every Debian and Debian derived system on the planet. > > > > To my knowledge, it is only fedora and possibly one or two other dists > > that put the firmware files in a unary /lib/firmware location, rather > > than a versioned /lib/firmware/$KERNELRELASE one. > > We (Mandriva Linux) do too. > Why other distro cannot package firmware separatly for all their kernel > flavors? > > Firmware are not version-specific.
Yes it is, when it is bundled with the kernel source tree itself.
Why do people not realize this?
This is a real problem for distros, and for anyone who wants to have multiple kernel versions on a single machine. Jeff's patch fixes this.
thanks,
greg k-h
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