From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add $KERNELRELEASE to firmware install path
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 13:37:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DD25DF7.7090407@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1305631419.8008.106.camel@i7.infradead.org>
On 17.5.2011 13:23, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 16:21 +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
>>
>> make deb-pkg generates a separate package with the firmware files. I
>> would suggest we do the same for rpm.
>
> No. You should ignore the firmware files *completely*.
make modules_install should ignore them completely. Whether the files
are installed directly in /lib/{modules,firmware} or packaged in a rpm
and transferred to another machine does not make any difference.
Michal
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-17 11:37 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
2011-05-16 14:21 ` Michal Marek
2011-05-17 11:23 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-17 11:37 ` Michal Marek [this message]
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