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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:36:09 +0400
From: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@...il.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
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, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:29 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> wrote:
> 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.
Should I redo this patch serie against linux-firmware.git (probably with
just putting .ct files near .cis)?
>
> --
> David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
> David.Woodhouse@...el.com Intel Corporation
>
>
--
With best wishes
Dmitry
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