Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux v2.6.27-rc1: problem with firmware stuff | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:26:37 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 14:01 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > Actually, this happened due to some firmware files being created as root during > > installations of pre-rc -git kernels from the O= directory. So, not a real > > problem, but somewhat confusing. > > Yeah, I've had that happen myself. It used to be that "make > modules_install" (as root, obviously) would try build a new version of the > kernel, and as a result subsequent build attempts would fail horribly > because of various random files being now owned-by-root. > > I don't know if there is a whole lot we can do about it in general..
Not in general. I _think_ I fixed the specific problem which led to Rafael's situation, but I'm still waiting for confirmation of that.
-- dwmw2
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