From: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>,
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Subject: make firmware_install pollutes $(objtree) with files owned by root
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 15:36:25 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201001061536.25576.knikanth@suse.de> (raw)
Hi
`make firmware_install` has to be run as root, so that the firmware could be
installed in /lib/firmware. But it doesn't simply install firmware from the
object directory. It first copies/converts files from source directory to the
object directory, which then gets installed.
This leads to the situation where `make clean` cannot be run as normal user as
he cannot remove files belonging to root. It would be a common expectaion to
be able to delete the source/object tree as user.
We should introduce another make target, `make firmware` to convert/copy files
from src dir to obj dir. Or this intermediate step should be avoided. Or
atleast `make firmware_install` should delete the files it created in the
object tree.
Thanks
Nikanth
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