Build was failing because we were depending on tagged versions of
the deblobbing scripts. The tags are not updated and thus newer
changes required won't be reflected unless the tag is re-created, which
might not be reliably the case.
So bumping revision and switching to use the branches to access the
deblob scripts.
For context, in our case the missing change is:
--- /nix/store/sfc0rrhj5l44zpqgpsymq5750k5wzg8p-tags-r16790/4.19-gnu/deblob-4.19 1970-01-01 01:00:01.000000000 +0100
+++ ../deblob-4.19 2019-09-14 14:53:44.637404289 +0200
@@ -1879,7 +1879,11 @@
announce BRCMFMAC - "Broadcom IEEE802.11n embedded FullMAC WLAN driver"
reject_firmware drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.c
-reject_firmware drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/common.c
+if grep -q firmware_request_nowarn drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/common.c; then
+ reject_firmware_nowarn drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/common.c
+else
+ reject_firmware drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/common.c
+fi
clean_blob drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/feature.c
clean_blob drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.h
Building a system with boot.kernelPackages = pkgs.linuxPackages-libre
failed because the expression is called with extra arguments,
See linux-4.14.nix.
Tim Steinbach
Dima
Alyssa Ross
Jörg Thalheim
Jan Malakhovski
Uli Baum