Re: [PATCH] Add $KERNELRELEASE to firmware install path

[Michal Marek]

(Adding David Woodhouse and lkml to CC, in general it's usually better 
to CC topic lists in addition to lkml, rather than instead of lkml.)

On 5.5.2011 19:39, Arun Sharma wrote:
> Useful in the presence of multiple kernels with different
> firmware versions.

The changelog should also include the udev version that is able to find 
the firmware there (v127, August 2008). FWIW, SUSE has been using this 
patch since about that time, but we forgot to push this :-|. Anyway

Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>


> Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma<asharma@xxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index e712243..cb715df 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -997,7 +997,7 @@ 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
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