Re: [PATCH 2/3 v2] firmware: Add /proc/firmware_path entry to listthe firmware paths

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Oct 25 2012 - 14:48:32 EST


On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 01:52:55PM +0100, Dimitris Papastamos wrote:
> This patch provides the aforementioned procfs file that lists
> the default firmware paths that are used during firmware lookup.
>
> The file contains a white space separated list of paths.

Paths can have whitespaces :(

How about using the "universal" path seperator of ':' that shells are
used to using? Yeah, it gets messy if you have a ':' in a path, but
from what I can tell, only the openSUSE build system does looney things
like that.

> There will be another patch on top of this that adds the functionality
> to modify the paths at runtime.

Did I miss that patch somewhere?

thanks,

greg k-h
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