linux-kernel - Re: [GIT] Networking

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Date:	Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:34:28 +0000
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Ben Hutchings <benh@...ian.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Hayes Wang <hayeswang@...ltek.com>,
	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT] Networking

On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 11:49 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> [ Apart from the annoyance of also having to manually copying the
> firmware files: why the heck doesn't that firmware tree even have a
> "make firmware-install" makefile or something? The kernel has a "make
> firmware-install" thing, why doesn't the firmware tree itself have
> that?

Yeah, the main reason I haven't yet submitted a patch to remove the
legacy firmware/ directory from the kernel source, as discussed at the
Kernel Summit, is because I need to implement some makefiles for the
firmware tree first.

I'll do a 'make install' for the firmware tree which installs it all,
and lets you specify min/max kernel versions so you can omit stuff that
*really* isn't relevant.

I also want to preserve the CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL option, but that
can't easily be based on the hardcoded knowledge of the config options;
it wants to be based on the MODULE_FIRMWARE tags of the built-in
drivers. And once we're enumerating those, it should be relatively
simple to warn about missing firmwares in the non-FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL
case too.

I didn't find the time to do that for the 2.6.38 merge window, but I
should get it done for 2.6.39.

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

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