From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add $KERNELRELEASE to firmware install path
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 16:21:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110516142118.GM13293@sepie.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110506223727.GA29011@dev1756.snc6.facebook.com>
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 03:37:27PM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote:
> 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?
make deb-pkg generates a separate package with the firmware files. I
would suggest we do the same for rpm.
Michal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-16 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-05 17:39 [PATCH] Add $KERNELRELEASE to firmware install path Arun Sharma
2011-05-06 10:15 ` Michal Marek
2011-05-06 10:18 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-06 18:44 ` Arun Sharma
2011-05-06 19:02 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-06 22:37 ` Arun Sharma
2011-05-16 14:21 ` Michal Marek [this message]
2011-05-17 11:23 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-17 11:37 ` Michal Marek
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