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

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Message-ID: <20110506223727.GA29011@dev1756.snc6.facebook.com>
Date:	Fri, 6 May 2011 15:37:27 -0700
From:	Arun Sharma <asharma@...com>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	Arun Sharma <asharma@...com>, 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, 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?

 -Arun
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