Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756667Ab1EFTCl (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 May 2011 15:02:41 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:59998 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754470Ab1EFTCk (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 May 2011 15:02:40 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add $KERNELRELEASE to firmware install path From: David Woodhouse To: Arun Sharma Cc: Michal Marek , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, lkml Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 20:02:36 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20110506184438.GA30417@dev1756.snc6.facebook.com> References: <20110505173939.GA20575@dev1756.snc6.facebook.com> <4DC3CA39.30806@suse.cz> <1304677113.20656.2.camel@i7.infradead.org> <20110506184438.GA30417@dev1756.snc6.facebook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.0 (3.0.0-1.fc15) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1304708557.20656.49.camel@i7.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.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: 645 Lines: 20 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. -- 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/