From: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Cc: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/30] linux-firware: use ${base_libdir} instead of /lib for packaging
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 09:14:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50213ECA.7020903@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1344277316.4874.2.camel@x121e.pbcl.net>
On 08/06/2012 11:21 AM, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 11:10 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
>> On 08/05/2012 08:54 AM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>>> It is considered good practice to use the build system provided
>>> variables instead of directly specify hardcoded paths.
>>
>> The firmware location is explicitly set because this is where the Linux
>> kernel requires it to be.
>
> Is that actually true? I thought the kernel just supplied the leafname
> that it wanted and the knowledge about what directory to search was
> encoded in the hotplug helper scripts.
I was sure it was true at the time, but trying to get a reference from
the source suggests I was mistaken. According to
Documentation/firmware_class/README, the hotplug script is responsible
for locating the firmware by basename and catting it to a sysfs file for
the kernel to then read.
While there are several hardcoded references to "/lib/firmware"
(comments, installation of in-kernel firmware, etc.), none of these seem
to be related to loading firmware installed via linux-firmware.
So... the question I guess is: does hotplug know to look in
${base_libdir}/firmware.
But the larger concern, is that all these changes appear to have been
done via search/replace without any functional testing of the result.
--
Darren
>
>> This patch will break firmware loading.
>
> That might well be the case, though, unless the scripts have also been
> patched to respect ${base_libdir}.
>
> And, notwithstanding all the above, it's not entirely obvious that
> ${base_libdir} is semantically the right variable for things that aren't
> libraries. How does the udev recipe represent the patch to /lib/udev?
>
> p.
>
>
>
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--
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Technical Lead - Linux Kernel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-07 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-05 15:53 [PATCH 00/30] cleanup: use variables instead of hardcoded paths Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-05 15:53 ` [PATCH 01/30] xinetd: use ${sbindir} instead of /usr/sbin for packaging Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-05 15:53 ` [PATCH 02/30] alsa-state: " Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-05 15:53 ` [PATCH 03/30] lsbsetup: use ${bindir} instead of /usr/bin " Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-06 17:25 ` Mark Hatle
2012-08-05 15:53 ` [PATCH 04/30] sudo: use ${bindir} and ${sysconfdir} instead of /usr/bin and /etc Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-05 15:53 ` [PATCH 05/30] lsbtest: use ${bindir} instead of /usr/bin for packaging Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-05 15:53 ` [PATCH 06/30] cronie: use variables instead of hardcoded paths Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-05 15:53 ` [PATCH 07/30] useradd-example: use ${datadir} instead of /usr/share for packaging Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-05 15:53 ` [PATCH 08/30] ubootchart: use variables instead of hardcoded paths Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-05 15:53 ` [PATCH 09/30] xkeyboard-config: use ${datadir} instead of /usr/share for packaging Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-05 15:53 ` [PATCH 10/30] systemtap: " Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-05 15:53 ` [PATCH 11/30] lsb: use ${base_bindir} instead of /bin " Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-06 17:29 ` Mark Hatle
2012-08-05 15:53 ` [PATCH 12/30] mingetty: use ${base_sbindir} instead of /sbin " Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-05 15:54 ` [PATCH 13/30] external-sourcery: use ${prefix} and ${libdir} instead of /usr and /usr/lib Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-05 15:54 ` [PATCH 14/30] rpm: use ${localstatedir} and ${libdir} instead of /var " Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-05 15:54 ` [PATCH 15/30] at: use ${base_sbindir} instead of /sbin for packaging Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-05 15:54 ` [PATCH 16/30] kernel.bbclass: use ${base_libdir} and ${sysconfdir} instead of /lib and /etc Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-05 15:54 ` [PATCH 17/30] linux-firware: use ${base_libdir} instead of /lib for packaging Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-06 18:10 ` Darren Hart
2012-08-06 18:21 ` Phil Blundell
2012-08-07 16:14 ` Darren Hart [this message]
2012-08-07 18:29 ` Koen Kooi
2012-08-05 15:54 ` [PATCH 18/30] openssh: use ${localstatedir} instead of /var " Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-05 15:54 ` [PATCH 19/30] libpam: use ${localstatedir} and ${sysconfdir} instead of /var and /etc Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-05 15:54 ` [PATCH 20/30] x11-common: use ${sysconfdir} instead of /etc for packaging Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-05 15:54 ` [PATCH 21/30] lsb: " Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-05 15:54 ` [PATCH 22/30] builder: " Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-05 15:54 ` [PATCH 23/30] xserver-nodm-init: " Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-05 15:54 ` [PATCH 24/30] lsbinitscripts: " Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-05 15:54 ` [PATCH 25/30] xinetd: " Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-05 15:54 ` [PATCH 26/30] usbinit: " Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-05 15:54 ` [PATCH 27/30] qemu-config: " Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-05 15:54 ` [PATCH 28/30] rsync: " Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-05 15:54 ` [PATCH 29/30] chkconfig: " Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-05 15:54 ` [PATCH 30/30] man: " Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-08-05 18:16 ` [PATCH 00/30] cleanup: use variables instead of hardcoded paths Otavio Salvador
2012-08-05 19:10 ` Khem Raj
2012-08-05 19:19 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
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