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From: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add $KERNELRELEASE to firmware install path
Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 15:37:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110506223727.GA29011@dev1756.snc6.facebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1304708557.20656.49.camel@i7.infradead.org>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-06 22:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-05 17:39 [PATCH] Add $KERNELRELEASE to firmware install path Arun Sharma
2011-05-06 10:15 ` Michal Marek
2011-05-06 10:18   ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-06 18:44     ` Arun Sharma
2011-05-06 19:02       ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-06 22:37         ` Arun Sharma [this message]
2011-05-16 14:21           ` Michal Marek
2011-05-17 11:23             ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-17 11:37               ` Michal Marek

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