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

[Koen Kooi]

Op 7 aug. 2012, om 18:14 heeft Darren Hart <dvhart at linux.intel.com> het volgende geschreven:

> 
> 
> On 08/06/2012 11:21 AM, Phil Blundell wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I was sure it was true at the time, but trying to get a reference from
> the source suggests I was mistaken. According to
> Documentation/firmware_class/README, the hotplug script is responsible
> for locating the firmware by basename and catting it to a sysfs file for
> the kernel to then read.

That hasn't been the case for a long, long time. CONFIG_HOTPLUG should be "", the kernel can load it on its own now. Any reference to 'hotplug' as something executable is very outdated.

regards,

Koen