linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add $KERNELRELEASE to firmware install path

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Date:	Mon, 16 May 2011 16:21:18 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Arun Sharma <asharma@...com>
Cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add $KERNELRELEASE to firmware install path

On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 03:37:27PM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote:
> On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 08:02:36PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 11:44 -0700, Arun Sharma wrote:
> > > 
> > > Without this change, if you have two kernel rpms/debs from different
> > > kernel versions installed, they'll result in a namespace conflict
> > > (rpm/deb install will fail), which gets resolved by this patch. 
> > 
> > The packages are broken then. They shouldn't include *any* files
> > in /lib/firmware.
> > 
> > Fix *that*, and the problem goes away.
> 
> Sounds good.
> 
> Michal: Should I send you a patch that drops /lib/firmware?

make deb-pkg generates a separate package with the firmware files. I
would suggest we do the same for rpm.

Michal
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