Manoj wrote: > It correctly installs firmware in a versioned location under > /lib/firmware. Problem is that even though this may avoid package conflicts, it is *not* correct given the way Debian currently looks for firmware. Also, it is not the way upstream recommends to install firmware. All (non-free) Debian firmware packages install the firmware files directly under /lib/firmware, not /lib/firmware/$kernel-version. And Debian's udev does not consider the kernel-version when looking for firmware. /lib/udev/hotplug.functions has: FIRMWARE_DIRS='/lib/firmware /usr/local/lib/firmware /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware' This means that if you start installing the same firmware file under versioned directories, udev will use the first one it finds. Which will be the one for some $random kernel version and not the one for the currently running kernel. Installing firmware in versioned directories will also result in bloated initramfs initrds as the whole /lib/firmware dir will be copied into them, including the duplicated firmware files for all installed kernel versions. The correct solution for this would IMO be to have kernel-package build a *separate* package for firmware which does not include the kernel version in its package name. IMO this is an RC bug in the new kernel-package. Cheers, FJP
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