linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] firmware: delete in-kernel firmware

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Date:   Thu, 14 Sep 2017 14:39:07 -0700
From:   David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, Kyle McMartin <kyle@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: delete in-kernel firmware

On Thu, 2017-09-14 at 14:33 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> The last firmware change for the in-kernel firmware source code was back
> in 2013.  Everyone has been relying on the out-of-tree linux-firmware
> package for a long long time.
> 
> So let's drop it, it's baggage we don't need to keep dragging around
> (and having to fix random kbuild issues over time...)
> 
> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@...nel.org>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>
> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> ---
> 
> This has gone on too long, let's just drop it for 4.14.  Any objections?

Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>

This has been the plan for a very long time, and we even agreed to do
it at the Kernel Summit in Boston. ISTR there was one final technical
thing we wanted to fix for the out-of-kernel tree which stopped me from
sending the patch that day, but that's long since irrelevant now. Let's
do it.

Thanks.
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