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From: Nikanth Karthikesan on 6 Jan 2010 05:10 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ |