The patch titled
firmware: allow release-specific firmware dir
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
firmware-allow-release-specific-firmware-dir.patch
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Subject: firmware: allow release-specific firmware dir
From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>
Every kernel package trying to provide files under /lib/firmware runs into
problems really quickly with multiple kernels installed, especially with
respect to distribution package tracking of the files.
This patch moves them to /lib/firmware/$KERNELRELEASE. udev v127's
firmware.sh looks there first before falling back to /lib/firmware.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Makefile | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN Makefile~firmware-allow-release-specific-firmware-dir Makefile
--- a/Makefile~firmware-allow-release-specific-firmware-dir
+++ a/Makefile
@@ -1026,7 +1026,7 @@ depend dep:
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Firmware install
-INSTALL_FW_PATH=$(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/lib/firmware
+INSTALL_FW_PATH=$(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/lib/firmware/$(KERNELRELEASE)
export INSTALL_FW_PATH
PHONY += firmware_install
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from jeffm@xxxxxxxx are
firmware-allow-release-specific-firmware-dir.patch
fs-reiserfs-use-an-is_err-test-rather-than-a-null-test.patch
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