linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] Add mkcis - a program that can create .cis from text description

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Date:	Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:29:12 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pcmcia@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] Add mkcis - a program that can create .cis from
 text description

On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 19:19 +0400, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
> For CIS files (describing hardware on PCMCIA and some other busses)
> binary file isn't the 'preferred for for modification' in most cases.
> pcmcia-cs project have developed pack_cis program which can be used
> (and was used most probably) to generate .cis files from simple text
> descriptions. Import this code to the kernel under the name of mkcis.

This is useful, thanks -- but NACK. The firmware/ directory of the
kernel will hopefully die soon, and is no longer what's actually shipped
by many distributions.

We should be concentrating on the linux-firmware.git repository instead.

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

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