Bug 919249 - linux-firmware: please RPM-own the directories: /usr/lib/firmware, /usr/lib/firmware/updates
Summary: linux-firmware: please RPM-own the directories: /usr/lib/firmware, /usr/lib/f...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: linux-firmware
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Josh Boyer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-03-07 22:28 UTC by Kay Sievers
Modified: 2013-03-20 13:44 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-03-20 13:44:55 UTC
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Description Kay Sievers 2013-03-07 22:28:40 UTC 
Future udev will not handle any firmware requests or load any firmware file
into the kernel.

Please own the directories, systemd.rpm will give up the ownership soon.

  %dir %{_prefix}/lib/firmware
  %dir %{_prefix}/lib/firmware/updates

Thanks!
Comment 1 Josh Boyer 2013-03-19 15:00:50 UTC 
Is the updates directory really needed?  I can't remember a usecase for it existing at all in Fedora.
Comment 2 Kay Sievers 2013-03-20 00:03:41 UTC 
I think it was used for kernel module update RPMs in enterprise setups. I have
never seen anything using it.

As an argument to ship them: these directories are read by the kernel too:
  fw_path_para,
  "/lib/firmware/updates/" UTS_RELEASE,
  "/lib/firmware/updates",
  "/lib/firmware/" UTS_RELEASE,
  "/lib/firmware"
in:
  drivers/base/firmware_class.c
Comment 3 Josh Boyer 2013-03-20 00:22:47 UTC 
OK, fixed.  Should be in tomorrow's Branched/Rawhide.
Comment 4 Josh Boyer 2013-03-20 13:44:55 UTC 
In today's Branched/rawhide.
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