Firmware

Jarod Wilson jwilson at redhat.com
Mon Jun 9 12:43:05 UTC 2008


David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 08:39 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> Not quite sure. udev owns it right now. Could have multiple ownership so as to 
>> not Requires: udev. Could possibly be something that should move to the 
>> filesystem package. I think I might lean toward making that directory owned by 
>> filesystem, so you have singular ownership and both udev and kernel-firmware 
>> can use it without either one explicitly requiring the other.
> 
> I'm content with requiring udev -- since it's udev which is going to
> load anything that lives in /lib/firmware anyway, that actually makes
> some sense.

Ah, okay, I figured udev typically would be wanted, but wasn't sure if some of 
this could be done sans-udev in some particular case. Just requiring udev does 
sound like the way to go then.


-- 
Jarod Wilson
jwilson at redhat.com




More information about the Fedora-kernel-list mailing list