Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:58:33 -0400 | From | Theodore Tso <> | Subject | The request_firmware() changes causing problems with make-kpkg |
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Using 2.6.26-git4 and -git6, and with CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y, make modules_install is calling firmware_install, which is dropping files in /lib/firmware --- which make-kpkg is happily picking up and including in the debian kernel package. Which was fine --- until I tried to build and install kernel package for -git6, at which point I got an error at install time because the second package was tying to overwrite files installed by the first linux-image file. Doh!
Given that Ubuntu's firmware loader already tries to find firmware at /lib/firmware/<kpkg> and only if that fails, to load it from /lib/firmware, it seems like the obvious thing to do is to add a quickie CONFIG option which changes the default setting of INSTALL_FW_PATH in the top-level makefile from /lib/firwmare to /lib/firmware/<kver>.
Maybe the userspace for other distributions won't support this, but they can simply not use this CONFIG option for now; but it will solve the problem for all Ubuntu, and possibly Debian, users who want to build their own kernel using make-kpkg. If I cons a patch like this, is there likely going to be any objections with it getting merged?
Regards,
- Ted
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