Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759278AbYG2W0u (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:26:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753074AbYG2W0m (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:26:42 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:46943 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751051AbYG2W0m (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:26:42 -0400 Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.27-rc1: problem with firmware stuff From: David Woodhouse To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: References: <200807292249.48050.rjw@sisk.pl> <200807292301.36987.rjw@sisk.pl> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:26:37 +0100 Message-Id: <1217370397.27925.139.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 (2.22.3.1-1.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1058 Lines: 26 On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 14:01 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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.. Not in general. I _think_ I fixed the specific problem which led to Rafael's situation, but I'm still waiting for confirmation of that. -- dwmw2 -- 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/