linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] limit _shipped to c,h and S files

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Message-ID: <542C07BF.6030703@suse.cz>
Date:	Wed, 01 Oct 2014 15:55:11 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@...r.at>
CC:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] limit _shipped to c,h and S files

On 2014-10-01 15:36, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> 
> limit _shipped to c,h and S files
> 
> _shipped targets are intended for generated source files which should
> not permit .o binary blobs which is currently the case. This patch
> simply restricts _shipped targets to .c, .h and .S files.

Patches 1/3 and 3/3 are fine, but I'm not convinced about this one.
Sure, binary blobs are often distributed as *.o_shipped, but they are
not going away if you remove support for _shipped.


> Note that this patch breaks the handline of drivers/net/wan/wanxlfw.inc_shipped
> which probably really should be moved to a loadable firmware and use
> request_firmware - a short term fix could be to move it to a .h file.

At a minimum, the patch series should address this before limiting
support for *_shipped.

Michal
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