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Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 13:37:27 +0200
From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add $KERNELRELEASE to firmware install path
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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
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