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

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:07:31AM +0100, Dimitris Papastamos wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:48:33AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Sure I can do that, however, could you comment on Ming's comments?  Is
> this patchset something we find useful at the moment as regards listing
> and/or updating the firmware path list.

I really don't remember anymore, sorry.  That was a few hunderd or so
patches ago that I've reviewed...

greg k-h
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