linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir

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Message-Id: <1221165518.4077.17.camel@macbook.infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:38:38 -0700
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@...driva.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jeffm@...e.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 13:15 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> This is the firmware that is in the kernel source tree, that has been
> moved to use request_firmware, and was originally tied tightly to the
> kernel drivers themselves.

Not really. Most of it hasn't changed for years; it isn't _really_ tied
that closely to the kernel. 

You can just ignore what the kernel ships with, and install the firmware
from the linux-firmware.git repository instead.

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@...el.com                              Intel Corporation

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