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

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Date:   Fri, 6 Jul 2018 10:03:02 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
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

2018-07-05 11:22 GMT+09:00 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>:
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>
>

Applied to linux-kbuild. Thanks!


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada