Re: New format Intel microcode...

[Arjan van de Ven]

Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> that is the whole point. The slash was never meant to be used. It was
> designed to take a filename or a pattern that will be later matched by
> userspace. However some developers are now trying to abuse this since
> the simple firmware helper script matches this directly to a filename
> (and directory in this case) on the disk.
>
> Putting a slash in the request_firmware() call now enforces a
> subdirectory 

I don't see how this follows from the former. Userspace is free to 
translate the kernel string into anything it wants, even a simple 
replacement of / with _. So I don't see how this "enforces" a 
subdirectory. Firmware gets a namespace basically, and a / is a 
logical namespace separator.
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