linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] firmware: Automatically pull missing FW files

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Message-ID: <1408559681.11365.1.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 20 Aug 2014 13:34:41 -0500
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@...el.com>
Cc:	linux-firmware@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Automatically pull missing FW files

On Wed, 2014-08-20 at 11:21 -0700, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
> Hi,
> When a binary FW file is not present in the firmware dir then the
> build will fail. 

I'm not sure I understand. Precisely what fails?

I don't like this patch very much. We should be removing the legacy
firmware/ directory entirely, not patching it up.

Userspace is responsible for providing the firmware, and it should
generally come from an entirely separate checkout of the linux-firmware
repository.

-- 
dwmw2

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