[OE-core] [PATCH 17/30] linux-firware: use ${base_libdir} instead of /lib for packaging

[Phil Blundell]

On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 11:10 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> On 08/05/2012 08:54 AM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> > It is considered good practice to use the build system provided
> > variables instead of directly specify hardcoded paths.
> 
> The firmware location is explicitly set because this is where the Linux
> kernel requires it to be. 

Is that actually true?  I thought the kernel just supplied the leafname
that it wanted and the knowledge about what directory to search was
encoded in the hotplug helper scripts.

> This patch will break firmware loading.

That might well be the case, though, unless the scripts have also been
patched to respect ${base_libdir}.  

And, notwithstanding all the above, it's not entirely obvious that
${base_libdir} is semantically the right variable for things that aren't
libraries.  How does the udev recipe represent the patch to /lib/udev?

p.