When emerging sys-kernel/linux-firmware with USE="savedconfig", it prevents unneeded firmware blobs from installing, but leaves empty directories, that pollutes /lib/modules. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Remove all but one firmware blob from /etc/portage/savedconfig/sys-kernel/linux-firmware-* 2. USE="savedconfig" emerge sys-kernel/linux-firmware Actual Results: Many empty directories in /lib/firmware Expected Results: No stale empty directories in /lib/firmware
Created attachment 296975 [details, diff] Proposed fix for linux-firmware-20110818.ebuild
Fixed in linux-firmware-20120125
(In reply to comment #2) > Fixed in linux-firmware-20120125 Thank you! Works fine now.