Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:54:49 +0000 |
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On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 10:03 -0500, Jeff Mahoney wrote: > > Because every time you run 'make modules_install', it overwrites > whatever is in /lib/firmware when there is a collision. When you're > working with multiple kernel versions, you can end up with firmware > blobs from older builds, and that may not be what you want. If the > right answer is to always use kernel-firmware, then the firmwares > should probably not be in the kernel tree at all.
The right answer is to always use kernel-firmware. The firmwares should not be in the kernel tree at all.
Changing the default behaviour of 'make modules_install' so that it no longer installs firmware would be the better option. As a stop-gap until we finally do drop the legacy firmware images from the source tree.
-- dwmw2
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