From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755577Ab1EPOVW (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 May 2011 10:21:22 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:55103 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755500Ab1EPOVV (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 May 2011 10:21:21 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 16:21:18 +0200 From: Michal Marek To: Arun Sharma Cc: David Woodhouse , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, lkml Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add $KERNELRELEASE to firmware install path Message-ID: <20110516142118.GM13293@sepie.suse.cz> References: <20110505173939.GA20575@dev1756.snc6.facebook.com> <4DC3CA39.30806@suse.cz> <1304677113.20656.2.camel@i7.infradead.org> <20110506184438.GA30417@dev1756.snc6.facebook.com> <1304708557.20656.49.camel@i7.infradead.org> <20110506223727.GA29011@dev1756.snc6.facebook.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110506223727.GA29011@dev1756.snc6.facebook.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 03:37:27PM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote: > 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? make deb-pkg generates a separate package with the firmware files. I would suggest we do the same for rpm. Michal