Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760544AbYG2VET (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:04:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754380AbYG2VEK (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:04:10 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:33314 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754234AbYG2VEJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:04:09 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:01:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , David Woodhouse , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.27-rc1: problem with firmware stuff In-Reply-To: <200807292301.36987.rjw@sisk.pl> Message-ID: References: <200807292249.48050.rjw@sisk.pl> <200807292301.36987.rjw@sisk.pl> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 837 Lines: 21 On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > Actually, this happened due to some firmware files being created as root during > installations of pre-rc -git kernels from the O= directory. So, not a real > problem, but somewhat confusing. Yeah, I've had that happen myself. It used to be that "make modules_install" (as root, obviously) would try build a new version of the kernel, and as a result subsequent build attempts would fail horribly because of various random files being now owned-by-root. I don't know if there is a whole lot we can do about it in general.. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/