linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kbuild: delete INSTALL_FW

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Date:   Thu, 5 Jul 2018 10:49:17 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: delete INSTALL_FW_PATH from kbuild documentation

2018-07-05 4:59 GMT+09:00 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>:
> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
>
> Removed Kbuild documentation for INSTALL_FW_PATH.
>
> The kbuild symbol INSTALL_FW_PATH was removed from Kbuild tools in
> September 2014 (for 4.14) but the symbol was not deleted from

I think 'September 2017'
although I can fix up the log locally.




> the kbuild documentation, so do that now.
>
> Fixes: 5620a0d1aac ("firmware: delete in-kernel firmware")
>
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # 4.14 and later
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt |    9 ---------
>  1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
>
> --- linux-next-20180704.orig/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
> +++ linux-next-20180704/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
> @@ -149,15 +149,6 @@ stripped after they are installed.  If I
>  the default option --strip-debug will be used.  Otherwise,
>  INSTALL_MOD_STRIP value will be used as the options to the strip command.
>
> -INSTALL_FW_PATH
> ---------------------------------------------------
> -INSTALL_FW_PATH specifies where to install the firmware blobs.
> -The default value is:
> -
> -    $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/lib/firmware
> -
> -The value can be overridden in which case the default value is ignored.
> -
>  INSTALL_HDR_PATH
>  --------------------------------------------------
>  INSTALL_HDR_PATH specifies where to install user space headers when
>
>
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-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada