Re: [PATCH 2/2] firmware: Add /proc/fw_path entry to list thefirmware paths
From: Dimitris Papastamos
Date: Wed Oct 10 2012 - 10:41:41 EST
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:36:55PM +0900, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:56:25AM +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.
> >
> > There will be another patch on top of this that adds the functionality
> > to modify the paths at runtime.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> What about /proc/sys/kernel/firmware_path instead? Isn't that a better
> place for this?
>
> greg k-h
Btw, a primitive set of patches along with write support are stashed
at http://opensource.wolfsonmicro.com/~dp/patches/firmware/ - will clean
these up and place the file at /proc/sys/kernel/firmware_path and
will send out a new version of the patch set.
Thanks,
Dimitris
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