Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:02:00 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: RFC: install firmware in a kernel-dependent directory |
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Michael Riepe wrote: > Currently, make firmware_install puts all firmware blobs in > /lib/firmware. If you have several kernel versions installed, they will > overwrite each other's files, which may lead to problems if the blobs > eventually change. I think it would be better to use a separate > directory for every kernel version, like /lib/firmware/$(uname -r) or > /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/firmware (the latter is my favorite). > > In either case, only a minimal modification in /lib/udev/firmware.sh is > required to make it look in the new directory first. > > Comments?
Seems reasonable to me, it seemed rather bizarre to me that this wasn't done in the first place..
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