On Sunday 28 Aug 2016 18:47:07 Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > It seems that without extra tweaking, running "make modules_install" in > > a built gentoo-sources tree always results in the Linux supplied > > firmware being reinstalled into /lib64/firmware. This is different from > > debian and definitely not my preferred way; I like to keep the firmware > > stable unless there is a tangible reason to update it. > > > > So, what is the extra tweak I need to apply to change this behavior? Is > > there a kernel menuconfig option for this? > > Try INSTALL_FW_PATH=/lib/firmware/kern_ver It would make sense that firmware installation takes place in a kernel specific directory like /lib/modules/ does and also removed with a distclean option, so we don't have to clean after ourselves. Any reason this is not so? -- Regards, Mick