Hi Michael,

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>> Again, I don't plan to break any setup. I actually do think it is a
>> good idea to group firmware files in subdirectories in /lib/firmware,
>> but this subdirectory name doesn't belong in the kernel.
>>
>> We will update udev to read the driver name and look into /lib/
>> firmware/<driver>/<filename> and /lib/firmware/<filename> for the
>> firmware file.
>>
>> Then we will set a date and note it in the future remove document.
>> Something like 12 month after an updated udev has been released. This
>> gives the distribution two generations time to update udev and kernel
>> packages.
>
> How are you going to handle multiple versions of the firmware for  
> one driver?
> How does one switch between versions (changing config files is not  
> acceptable)?

that is your point of view. Why is changing a config file not  
acceptable?

Regards

Marcel

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