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From: Dimitris Papastamos <dp@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] firmware: Add /proc/fw_path entry to list the firmware paths
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:41:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121010144145.GA26681@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121010133655.GA11678@kroah.com>

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:36:55PM +0900, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:56:25AM +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.
> > 
> > There will be another patch on top of this that adds the functionality
> > to modify the paths at runtime.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dp@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
> 
> What about /proc/sys/kernel/firmware_path instead?  Isn't that a better
> place for this?
> 
> greg k-h

Btw, a primitive set of patches along with write support are stashed
at http://opensource.wolfsonmicro.com/~dp/patches/firmware/ - will clean
these up and place the file at /proc/sys/kernel/firmware_path and
will send out a new version of the patch set.

Thanks,
Dimitris

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-10 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-10 10:56 [PATCH 0/2] Expose firmware paths via procfs Dimitris Papastamos
2012-10-10 10:56 ` [PATCH 1/2] firmware: Convert firmware path setup from an array to a list Dimitris Papastamos
2012-10-22 15:42   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-23  9:43     ` Dimitris Papastamos
2012-10-10 10:56 ` [PATCH 2/2] firmware: Add /proc/fw_path entry to list the firmware paths Dimitris Papastamos
2012-10-10 13:36   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-10 13:40     ` Josh Boyer
2012-10-10 13:45     ` Dimitris Papastamos
2012-10-10 14:41     ` Dimitris Papastamos [this message]
2012-10-10 15:14 ` [PATCH 0/2] Expose firmware paths via procfs Ming Lei
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2012-10-09 22:50 [PATCH 2/2] firmware: Add /proc/fw_path entry to list the firmware paths Dimitris Papastamos

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