Comment # 9 on bug 1177256 from Takashi Iwai

(In reply to Stefan Dirsch from comment #8)
> > OTOH, if a KMP provides its own firmware in /lib/firmware/$VERSION and it
> > must use it, it becomes a problem, indeed, when the kmp is weak-linked to a
> > different kernel version.  Is this really the case?
> 
> AFAIK AMD Pro drivers are installed via dkms, so this is not weak-linked but
> probably rebuilt once when the new kernel gets started (if I understood the
> dkms system correctly).
> 
> > If yes, we'd need to fix weak-modules2 script in suse-module-tools package
> > to deal with the firmware files in a weak-linked kmp, too.
> 
> AMD would need to fix this in dkms somehow. Probably at the same time when
> the modules(s) get rebuilt for the new kernel version.
> Either copying the firmware files to /lib/modules/<new_kernel_version> or
> symlinking them.

Right, that's the missing step.