On 7 February 2016 at 21:49, Chris Tapp <opensource@keylevel.com> wrote:

I’ve now done this by creating a bbappend for linux-firmware:

PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-rtl_nic"

FILES_${PN}-rtl_nic = " \
/lib/firmware/rtl_nic/* \
“

Does what I want, but is that the best way of doing it?

This is the best way for you now.

That's exactly why the recipe has quite a lot of subpackages, feel free to submit more upstream.

Ross