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

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Message-ID: <1304708557.20656.49.camel@i7.infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 06 May 2011 20:02:36 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Arun Sharma <asharma@...com>
Cc:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add $KERNELRELEASE to firmware install path

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.


-- 
dwmw2

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