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

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Fri May 06 2011 - 15:02:48 EST


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.


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