--- zzzz-none-000/linux-3.10.107/scripts/Makefile.fwinst	2017-06-27 09:49:32.000000000 +0000
+++ scorpion-7490-727/linux-3.10.107/scripts/Makefile.fwinst	2021-02-04 17:41:59.000000000 +0000
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Installing firmware
 #
 # We don't include the .config, so all firmware files are in $(fw-shipped-)
-# rather than in $(fw-shipped-y) or $(fw-shipped-n).
+# rather than in $(fw-shipped-y) or $(fw-shipped-m).
 # ==========================================================================
 
 INSTALL := install
@@ -13,36 +13,34 @@
 -include $(objtree)/.config
 
 include scripts/Kbuild.include
-include $(srctree)/$(obj)/Makefile
+include $(src)/Makefile
 
 include scripts/Makefile.host
 
 mod-fw := $(fw-shipped-m)
-# If CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL isn't set, then install the 
+# If CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL isn't set, then install the
 # firmware for in-kernel drivers too.
 ifndef CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL
 mod-fw += $(fw-shipped-y)
 endif
 
+ifneq ($(KBUILD_SRC),)
+# Create output directory if not already present
+_dummy := $(shell [ -d $(obj) ] || mkdir -p $(obj))
+
+firmware-dirs := $(sort $(addprefix $(objtree)/$(obj)/,$(dir $(fw-external-y) $(fw-shipped-all))))
+# Create directories for firmware in subdirectories
+_dummy := $(foreach d,$(firmware-dirs), $(shell [ -d $(d) ] || mkdir -p $(d)))
+endif
+
 installed-mod-fw := $(addprefix $(INSTALL_FW_PATH)/,$(mod-fw))
 
 installed-fw := $(addprefix $(INSTALL_FW_PATH)/,$(fw-shipped-all))
-installed-fw-dirs := $(sort $(dir $(installed-fw))) $(INSTALL_FW_PATH)/./
-
-# Workaround for make < 3.81, where .SECONDEXPANSION doesn't work.
-PHONY += $(INSTALL_FW_PATH)/$$(%) install-all-dirs
-$(INSTALL_FW_PATH)/$$(%): install-all-dirs
-	@true
-install-all-dirs: $(installed-fw-dirs)
-	@true
 
 quiet_cmd_install = INSTALL $(subst $(srctree)/,,$@)
-      cmd_install = $(INSTALL) -m0644 $< $@
-
-$(installed-fw-dirs):
-	$(call cmd,mkdir)
+      cmd_install = mkdir -p $(@D); $(INSTALL) -m0644 $< $@
 
-$(installed-fw): $(INSTALL_FW_PATH)/%: $(obj)/% | $(INSTALL_FW_PATH)/$$(dir %)
+$(installed-fw): $(INSTALL_FW_PATH)/%: $(obj)/%
 	$(call cmd,install)
 
 PHONY +=  __fw_install __fw_modinst FORCE