linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir

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Message-ID: <7af24c80809121324o26667cc8o3a7e2ba7414112ff@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:24:57 +0200
From:	"Kai Henningsen" <kai.extern@...glemail.com>
To:	"David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	"Joseph Fannin" <jfannin@...il.com>, "Greg KH" <greg@...ah.com>,
	"Marcel Holtmann" <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	"Thierry Vignaud" <tvignaud@...driva.com>,
	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, jeffm@...e.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 16:32, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 04:39 -0400, Joseph Fannin wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 03:25:43PM -0700, David Woodhouse wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 15:07 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>> <snip>
>>
>> > Now, can we _please_ stop being bloody stupid? If there are _real_
>> > problems, like the one I fixed with commit 1cede1af last week, then I'm
>> > perfectly happy to deal with them. But stop making crap up.
>>
>> I CAN'T INSTALL MORE THAN ONE KERNEL PACKAGE > v2.6.26.
>>
>> IT'S NOT IMAGINARY.
>>
>> IT USED TO WORK AND YOU BROKE IT.
>
> Then your kernel packaging is broken. Fix it.

I might be confused here, but my impression is that he complains about
packaging that is part of the kernel sources. That really makes it a
stretch to call it "his" packaging.

Let's see ... yes, scripts/packaging stuff ... assuming I parsed
MAINTAINERS correctly, that means it belongs to

KERNEL BUILD (kbuild: Makefile, scripts/Makefile.*)
P:      Sam Ravnborg
M:      sam@...nborg.org
T:      git kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next.git
T:      git kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes.git
L:      linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
S:      Maintained

No?

I've never used that stuff myself. I prefer working with the (Debian)
kernel-package (make-kpkg) tool, which is also used to create the
distribution packages I believe, and which when I last used it
certainly had an active maintainer.
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