Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: The request_firmware() changes causing problems with make-kpkg | From | Marcel Holtmann <> | Date | Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:42:16 +0200 |
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Hi Ted,
> 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?
sounds like a good idea to me. I am going to prepare a patch for udev to actually look at /lib/firmware/`uname -r`/ first to unify all the distros again.
Regards
Marcel
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