[kernel-xen] firmware conflict rtl8107e

[Glenn Enright]

The docs seem to indicate that the release folder is actually checked 
first, before the top level folder. So it should be safe to do that? 
Happy to test it for you :)

https://kernel.org/doc/Documentation/firmware_class/README

Regards, Glenn
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On 12/08/15 20:36, Steven Haigh wrote:
> On 12/08/15 16:22, Glenn Enright wrote:
>> HI there
>>
>> The issue is that we actually want the stock kernel installed still.
>> Along-side the kernel-xen package. As is, they block each other. Which
>> means we have to mess with our deployment scripts to make things work
>> temporarily.
>
> The stock kernel being present doesn't actually fix this problem.
> kernel-xen-firmware depends on kernel-firmware - which is why we do a
> bit of a dance. When kernel-xen-firmware is built, we automatically
> remove firmware that exists in kernel-firmware.
>
>>
>> Is there any reason the kernel-xen firmware package cant be installed to
>> a version based location like the kernel modules (ie
>> /lib/firmware/%{KRELEASE})? This would save downstreams having to wait
>> on package releases to fix conflicts, and would also ease the hassle on
>> package building?
>
> This would require some testing. I'm not sure exactly how the firmware
> loader works within the kernel - and if it requires things to be in a
> certain path or not. If you have an ethernet adapter that requires a
> firmware file to be uploaded (ie the bnx2 firmware), I would be
> interested to see if it still found the firmware files if they are moved
> to somewhere like /lib/firmware/%{KRELEASE}/blah
>
> The risk here (even on testing) is that the system may come back up
> without any ethernet adapters.
>
>>
>> Regards, Glenn
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>> On 08/12/15 17:33, Steven Haigh wrote:
>>> As long as this firmware file goes into the upstream packages, it should
>>> automatically be removed from the kernel-xen-firmware package when the
>>> next build comes out.
>>>
>>> Part of the build process gets *all* of the linux-firmware binaries,
>>> then removes ones that are provided by any package included in the stock
>>> distro repositories.
>>>
>>> In a nutshell, you can probably ignore the kernel-firmware package
>>> update for now, and the error should go away when the next build of
>>> kernel-xen-firmware comes along.
>>>
>>> On 12/08/15 12:56, Glenn Enright wrote:
>>>> Hi Steven, all
>>>>
>>>> Seeing a conflict with the latest centos kernel and firmware in
>>>> kernel-xen packages. Included below.
>>>>
>>>> Similar issue with the 3.14 kernels from stable. The -573 kernel from
>>>> centos is new, so I guess this has just been introduced.
>>>>
>>>> Regards, Glenn
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>>>> file /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8107e-1.fw conflicts between attempted
>>>> installs of kernel-xen-firmware-3.18.14-1.el6xen.x86_64 and
>>>> kernel-firmware-2.6.32-573.1.1.el6.noarch
>>>>    file /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8107e-2.fw conflicts between attempted
>>>> installs of kernel-xen-firmware-3.18.14-1.el6xen.x86_64 and
>>>> kernel-firmware-2.6.32-573.1.1.el6.noarch
>>>>    file /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168h-1.fw conflicts between attempted
>>>> installs of kernel-xen-firmware-3.18.14-1.el6xen.x86_64 and
>>>> kernel-firmware-2.6.32-573.1.1.el6.noarch
>>>>    file /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168h-2.fw conflicts between attempted
>>>> installs of kernel-xen-firmware-3.18.14-1.el6xen.x86_64 and
>>>> kernel-firmware-2.6.32-573.1.1.el6.noarch
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