Re: [PATCH 2/3] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Sun May 25 2008 - 09:47:25 EST


On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 14:16 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > What if I want 2 or 3 different firmware versions installed at once?
> > I'll have to play dirty tricks with the filenames then and put several
> > unrelated firmware versions into one directory. That's going to be a mess.
>
> You add the desired feature to udev, or use symlinks. Hardly a "mess".

It's a bit of a pain for the in-kernel firmware loading that I'm working
on now, if we can no longer count on the requested string to be the
single match criterion.

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dwmw2

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