linux-kernel - Re: Linux v2.6.27-rc1: problem with firmware stuff

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807291359110.3334@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:01:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.27-rc1: problem with firmware stuff



On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> Actually, this happened due to some firmware files being created as root during
> installations of pre-rc -git kernels from the O= directory.  So, not a real
> problem, but somewhat confusing.

Yeah, I've had that happen myself. It used to be that "make 
modules_install" (as root, obviously) would try build a new version of the 
kernel, and as a result subsequent build attempts would fail horribly 
because of various random files being now owned-by-root.

I don't know if there is a whole lot we can do about it in general..

			Linus
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