[Buildroot] [PATCH] linux-firmware: support paths with subdirs in LINUX_FIRMWARE_DIRS

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>]

Hello,

On Sun, 15 Apr 2018 22:22:45 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Following commit cdb7876f63a253254b86637aaac8b255a426b60a
> ("linux-firmware: add Qualcomm video accelerator and GPU firmware
> options"), LINUX_FIRMWARE_DIRS can now contain entries with subdirs,
> such as "qcom/venus-1.8". Such entries are currently not supported by
> the logic in LINUX_FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIRS.
> 
> Indeed the current logic consists in:
> 
>  - Removing the destination directory
>  - Copying to the destination directory
> 
> Unfortunately, the last step fails if a component of the path leading
> to the destination directory does not exist. To overcome this, we
> simply add the appropriate mkdir before the copy.
> 
> Fixes:
> 
>   http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/54cbca90742faf486e59d95b95a0b0494e47b385/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
> ---
>  package/linux-firmware/linux-firmware.mk | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Applied to master, thanks.

Thomas
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