Re: firmware path / udev

On Saturday 21 April 2007 11:41, Bernd Porr wrote:
> I'm looking into the udev/hotplug issue. The convention seems to be for
> the firware now: /lib/firmware/`uname -r`/driver.

I googled for /lib/firmware and only found one project that uses that 
convention?  I'd prefer to just put it an unversioned subdirectory 
of /lib/firmware by default.  However, since your usbdux stuff is the only 
open firmware in comedi and the rest was already split out into the 
comedi_nonfree_firmware tarball, you can do it however you prefer.  
Another thing to consider is, it's probably slightly easier for a user to 
build comedilib than the kernel drivers if all they want is an upgraded 
firmware file.

> I would suggest to move the actual firmware from comedilib to comedi so
> that we get also a version-dependent firmware installation in
> /lib/firmware. The actual udev scripts can stay in comedilib which then
> load the kernel dependent firmware. This makes it easier to have matched
> driver/firmware versions.


-- 
Frank