[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/linux-firmware: fix symlink support

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Tue Mar 3 15:10:51 UTC 2020


Baruch, All,

On 2020-03-03 15:41 +0200, Baruch Siach spake thusly:
> Hi Antoine,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 02:33:56PM +0100, Antoine Tenart wrote:
> > Since Linux-firmware's commit 9cfefbd7fbda ("Remove duplicate symlinks")
> > symlinks aren't distributed anymore. They are rather created at
> > installation time by a script provided in the project, copy-firmware.sh.
> > The description of the symlinks is done in the WHENCE file. Since the
> > bump to version 20200122, in commit 48cc1a89ae04, installation for many
> > firmwares was broken as Buildroot tried to install missing symlinks from
> > Linux-firmware.
> > 
> > The fix is not only to remove now missing symlinks, but to add logic to
> > create those symlinks as kernel modules will depend on them. The
> > solution taken by this patch is to create dynamically symlinks based on
> > their description in the WHENCE file *and* only if the file they'll
> > point to was installed in the target directory.
> > 
> > Fixes: 48cc1a89ae04 ("package/linux-firmware: bump to version 20200122")
> > Cc: james.hilliard1 at gmail.com
> > Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart at bootlin.com>
> 
> See commit 23d12793d5 ("package/linux-firmware: add missing symlinks") in the 
> master branch.

Indeed, but that's a screw up on my part: 23d12793d5 was supposed to be
applied on next, not master, and Antoine's patch is for next.

Besides, Antoine's patch implements exactly what I suggested earlier as
part of my reply to James:
    http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2020-March/275504.html

So, as discussed on IRC with Antoine and Thomas, I'll cleanup my mess on
master (and handle the symlinks issue on next).

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

> baruch
> 
> > ---
> >  package/linux-firmware/linux-firmware.mk | 33 ++++++++++++++----------
> >  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/package/linux-firmware/linux-firmware.mk b/package/linux-firmware/linux-firmware.mk
> > index f8e95d0648c9..125df74ef68d 100644
> > --- a/package/linux-firmware/linux-firmware.mk
> > +++ b/package/linux-firmware/linux-firmware.mk
> > @@ -71,9 +71,7 @@ endif
> >  
> >  # rt2xx
> >  ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_RALINK_RT2XX),y)
> > -# rt3090.bin is a symlink to rt2860.bin
> > -# rt3070.bin is a symlink to rt2870.bin
> > -LINUX_FIRMWARE_FILES += rt2860.bin rt2870.bin rt3070.bin rt3071.bin rt3090.bin
> > +LINUX_FIRMWARE_FILES += rt2860.bin rt2870.bin rt3071.bin
> >  LINUX_FIRMWARE_ALL_LICENSE_FILES += LICENCE.ralink-firmware.txt
> >  endif
> >  
> > @@ -214,8 +212,6 @@ endif
> >  
> >  # sd8688
> >  ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_LIBERTAS_SD8688),y)
> > -LINUX_FIRMWARE_FILES += libertas/sd8688.bin libertas/sd8688_helper.bin
> > -# The two files above are but symlinks to those two ones:
> >  LINUX_FIRMWARE_FILES += mrvl/sd8688.bin mrvl/sd8688_helper.bin
> >  LINUX_FIRMWARE_ALL_LICENSE_FILES += LICENCE.Marvell
> >  endif
> > @@ -320,12 +316,10 @@ endif
> >  
> >  # wl127x
> >  ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_TI_WL127X),y)
> > -# wl1271-nvs.bin is a symlink to wl127x-nvs.bin
> >  LINUX_FIRMWARE_FILES += \
> >  	ti-connectivity/wl1271-fw-2.bin \
> >  	ti-connectivity/wl1271-fw-ap.bin \
> >  	ti-connectivity/wl1271-fw.bin \
> > -	ti-connectivity/wl1271-nvs.bin \
> >  	ti-connectivity/wl127x-fw-3.bin \
> >  	ti-connectivity/wl127x-fw-plt-3.bin \
> >  	ti-connectivity/wl127x-nvs.bin \
> > @@ -341,15 +335,12 @@ endif
> >  
> >  # wl128x
> >  ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_TI_WL128X),y)
> > -# wl1271-nvs.bin and wl12xx-nvs.bin are symlinks to wl127x-nvs.bin
> >  LINUX_FIRMWARE_FILES += \
> >  	ti-connectivity/wl128x-fw-3.bin \
> >  	ti-connectivity/wl128x-fw-ap.bin \
> >  	ti-connectivity/wl128x-fw-plt-3.bin \
> >  	ti-connectivity/wl128x-fw.bin \
> > -	ti-connectivity/wl1271-nvs.bin \
> >  	ti-connectivity/wl128x-nvs.bin \
> > -	ti-connectivity/wl12xx-nvs.bin \
> >  	ti-connectivity/wl127x-nvs.bin \
> >  	ti-connectivity/wl128x-fw-4-mr.bin \
> >  	ti-connectivity/wl128x-fw-4-plt.bin \
> > @@ -363,13 +354,11 @@ endif
> >  
> >  # wl18xx
> >  ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_TI_WL18XX),y)
> > -# wl1271-nvs.bin is a symlink to wl127x-nvs.bin
> >  LINUX_FIRMWARE_FILES += \
> >  	ti-connectivity/wl18xx-fw.bin \
> >  	ti-connectivity/wl18xx-fw-2.bin \
> >  	ti-connectivity/wl18xx-fw-3.bin \
> >  	ti-connectivity/wl18xx-fw-4.bin \
> > -	ti-connectivity/wl1271-nvs.bin \
> >  	ti-connectivity/wl127x-nvs.bin \
> >  	ti-connectivity/TIInit_7.2.31.bts
> >  LINUX_FIRMWARE_ALL_LICENSE_FILES += LICENCE.ti-connectivity
> > @@ -568,8 +557,7 @@ LINUX_FIRMWARE_FILES += \
> >  endif
> >  
> >  ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_QAT_DH895XCC),y)
> > -# qat_mmp.bin is a symlink to qat_895xcc_mmp.bin
> > -LINUX_FIRMWARE_FILES += qat_895xcc.bin qat_895xcc_mmp.bin qat_mmp.bin
> > +LINUX_FIRMWARE_FILES += qat_895xcc.bin qat_895xcc_mmp.bin
> >  LINUX_FIRMWARE_ALL_LICENSE_FILES += LICENCE.qat_firmware
> >  endif
> >  
> > @@ -626,4 +614,21 @@ define LINUX_FIRMWARE_INSTALL_TARGET_CMDS
> >  	$(LINUX_FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIRS)
> >  endef
> >  
> > +# Some firmware are distributed as a symlink, for drivers to load them using a
> > +# defined name other than the real one. Since 9cfefbd7fbda ("Remove duplicate
> > +# symlinks") those symlink aren't distributed in linux-firmware but are created
> > +# automatically by its copy-firmware.sh script during the installation, which
> > +# parses the WHENCE file where symlinks are described. We follow the same logic
> > +# here, adding symlink only for firmwares installed in the target directory.
> > +# The grep/sed parsing is taken from the script mentioned before.
> > +define LINUX_FIRMWARE_CREATE_SYMLINKS
> > +	grep -E '^Link:' $(@D)/WHENCE | sed -e's/^Link: *//g' -e's/-> //g' | while read f d; do \
> > +		if test -f $(TARGET_DIR)/lib/firmware/$$d; then \
> > +			ln -sf $$d $(TARGET_DIR)/lib/firmware/$$f ; \
> > +		fi ; \
> > +	done
> > +endef
> > +
> > +LINUX_FIRMWARE_POST_INSTALL_TARGET_HOOKS += LINUX_FIRMWARE_CREATE_SYMLINKS
> > +
> >  $(eval $(generic-package))
> 
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