[Nix-dev] Re: Re: udev-153

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:08:21AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> This sounds wrong to me.  And it seems wrong to expects things from
>> outside the Nix store and outside /var/run/current-system.
> 
> /root/test-firmware should be looked at only at run time, never at build
> time.
I hope that it is fixed now.
> 
>> Besides, what’s that directory supposed to contain?  It is suppose to
>> host “test firmwares”, or to allow users to test firmwares, or what?
> It is mentioned in the udev firmware load path for the current udev
> version. This directory helped on some tricky situations when a user
> wanted to get a wireless lan adapter up manually having booted a nixos cd,
> or aircracking (some cards need special firmwares for that).