linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kbuild: delete INSTALL_FW

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <43f37d95-89cc-fd42-46c3-533f85f014e8@infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 4 Jul 2018 19:22:47 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc:     linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: delete INSTALL_FW_PATH from kbuild documentation

On 07/04/18 18:49, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> 2018-07-05 4:59 GMT+09:00 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>:
>> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
>>
>> Removed Kbuild documentation for INSTALL_FW_PATH.
>>
>> The kbuild symbol INSTALL_FW_PATH was removed from Kbuild tools in
>> September 2014 (for 4.14) but the symbol was not deleted from
> 
> I think 'September 2017'
> although I can fix up the log locally.

Right you are.  and thanks.

> 
> 
> 
>> the kbuild documentation, so do that now.
>>
>> Fixes: 5620a0d1aac ("firmware: delete in-kernel firmware")
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
>> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # 4.14 and later
>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt |    9 ---------
>>  1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
>>
>> --- linux-next-20180704.orig/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
>> +++ linux-next-20180704/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
>> @@ -149,15 +149,6 @@ stripped after they are installed.  If I
>>  the default option --strip-debug will be used.  Otherwise,
>>  INSTALL_MOD_STRIP value will be used as the options to the strip command.
>>
>> -INSTALL_FW_PATH
>> ---------------------------------------------------
>> -INSTALL_FW_PATH specifies where to install the firmware blobs.
>> -The default value is:
>> -
>> -    $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/lib/firmware
>> -
>> -The value can be overridden in which case the default value is ignored.
>> -
>>  INSTALL_HDR_PATH
>>  --------------------------------------------------
>>  INSTALL_HDR_PATH specifies where to install user space headers when
>>
>>
>> --


-- 
~Randy