Re: RFC: install firmware in a kernel-dependent directory

[david]

On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Michael Riepe
> <michael.riepe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?
>
> firmware version depends on hardware version not by kernel (software) version.

are you sure? different firmware could have different interfaces for the 
kernel to use.

I don't know if this is a problem in practice (I think I've heard of 
this), but there is no reason it couldn't be.

David Lang

> So /lib/firmware is absolutely OK.
>
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