From 70bd675bb90adcf3b083ad3256d5c95840e74d06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephan Raue <stephan@openelec.tv>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 19:25:25 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] linux: enable firmware loading from
 /storage/.config/firmware/

from Documentation/firmware_class/README:

 ....
 1), kernel(driver):
        - calls request_firmware(&fw_entry, $FIRMWARE, device)
        - kernel searchs the fimware image with name $FIRMWARE directly
        in the below search path of root filesystem:
                User customized search path by module parameter 'path'[1]
                "/lib/firmware/updates/" UTS_RELEASE,
                "/lib/firmware/updates",
                "/lib/firmware/" UTS_RELEASE,
                "/lib/firmware"
        - If found, goto 7), else goto 2)

        [1], the 'path' is a string parameter which length should be less
        than 256, user should pass 'firmware_class.path=$CUSTOMIZED_PATH'
        if firmware_class is built in kernel(the general situation)
  ....

can also be done via boot parameter but I preder symlinking
---
 packages/linux/package.mk | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/packages/linux/package.mk b/packages/linux/package.mk
index 96af7a2514..a4ecdf12ad 100644
--- a/packages/linux/package.mk
+++ b/packages/linux/package.mk
@@ -216,5 +216,7 @@ post_install() {
   mkdir -p $INSTALL/etc/modprobe.d
     cp $PKG_DIR/modprobe.d/*.conf $INSTALL/etc/modprobe.d
 
+  ln -sf /storage/.config/firmware/ $INSTALL/lib/firmware/updates
+
   enable_service cpufreq-threshold.service
 }