On Mon, 02 Sep 2019 09:47:18 +0200, Thierry Reding wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 02:05:15PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 12:33:50 +0200, > > Thierry Reding wrote: > > > > > > I've noticed that the current Link: mechanism completely ignores the > > > target part of the link. Was this intended to allow creating symlinks > > > dynamically when copying the firmware, rather than just copying any > > > existing symlinks themselves? > > > > That's a kind of intentional; the script doesn't validate by itself > > but just installs to the target directory. And the cp -d option > > preserves the symlink as-is, so it should work as long as the original > > symlink is correctly set up. > > Perhaps some code could be added to create the symlinks if the "-> foo" > part was specified and no symlink exists. Yeah, it sounds like a good idea. > Not a big deal, I just think it's a bit redundant to basically have all > the symlink information in the WHENCE file and in the filesystem. That's > especially annoying if both get out of sync. > > I'll volunteer to write that patch if you think it'd be a worthwhile > addition. I'm for it but leave the decision to Josh :) Thanks! Takashi
