From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 00:52:15 -0300 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Subject: Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" Message-ID: <20080705035215.GA15899@khazad-dum.debian.net> References: <1215177044.10393.743.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <486E2260.5050503@garzik.org> <1215178035.10393.763.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080704141014.GA23215@mit.edu> <486E3622.1000900@suse.de> <1215182557.10393.808.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080704231322.GA4410@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <20080704235839.GA5649@khazad-dum.debian.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Trent Piepho Cc: Olivier Galibert , David Woodhouse , Hannes Reinecke , Takashi Iwai , Theodore Tso , Jeff Garzik , Andi Kleen , David Miller , hugh@veritas.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, mchan@broadcom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 04 Jul 2008, Trent Piepho wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sat, 05 Jul 2008, Olivier Galibert wrote: > >> Won't that break multiple kernel installs on any binary packaging > >> system that cares about file collisions? Multiple kernel rpms > >> providing the same /lib/firmware files would break things wouldn't > >> they ? > > > > We will probably need per-kernel directories, exactly like what is done for > > modules. And since there are (now) both kernel-version-specific, and > > non-kernel-version-specific firmware, this means the firmware loader should > > look first on the version-specific directory (say, /lib/firmware/$(uname > > -r)/), then if not found, on the general directory (/lib/firmware). > > How about /lib/modules/`uname -r`/firmware I am fine with it, it certainly has a few advantages. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org