Re: [PATCH] Add $KERNELRELEASE to firmware install path

From: Arun Sharma
Date: Fri May 06 2011 - 18:37:34 EST


On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 08:02:36PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 11:44 -0700, Arun Sharma wrote:
> >
> > Without this change, if you have two kernel rpms/debs from different
> > kernel versions installed, they'll result in a namespace conflict
> > (rpm/deb install will fail), which gets resolved by this patch.
>
> The packages are broken then. They shouldn't include *any* files
> in /lib/firmware.
>
> Fix *that*, and the problem goes away.

Sounds good.

Michal: Should I send you a patch that drops /lib/firmware?

-Arun
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