From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756226AbYIIOPr (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:15:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753979AbYIIOPk (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:15:40 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:51829 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751606AbYIIOPj (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:15:39 -0400 Message-ID: <48C68507.6000609@suse.com> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:15:35 -0400 From: Jeff Mahoney Organization: SUSE Labs, Novell, Inc User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20071114) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Every kernel package trying to provide files under /lib/firmware runs into problems really quickly with multiple kernels installed, especially with respect to distribution package tracking of the files. This patch moves them to /lib/firmware/$KERNELRELEASE. udev v127's firmware.sh looks there first before falling back to /lib/firmware. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney --- Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1025,7 +1025,7 @@ depend dep: # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Firmware install -INSTALL_FW_PATH=$(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/lib/firmware +INSTALL_FW_PATH=$(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/lib/firmware/$(KERNELRELEASE) export INSTALL_FW_PATH PHONY += firmware_install -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs