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Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 20:21:53 +0900 From: Ken Kawasaki <ken_kawasaki@...ing.nifty.jp> To: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH kernel 2.6.32-rc5] pcnet_cs: add cis of PreMax PE-200 ethernet pcmcia card Hi, > The CIS files under firmware/ are, according to firmware/WHENCE, > 'developed by the pcmcia-cs project'. So I had a look at what's left of > the pcmcia-cs project and its last release, and found that it includes: > > - the tool 'pack_cis' which compiles a text version of CIS to the > standard binary format > - text versions of most of the CIS files > > Since the text versions contain comments which are excluded from the > binary format, I believe they should be considered the 'preferred form > for modification' and included in the linux-2.6 and linux-firmware trees > along with the binaries. > Actually, it is better to build CIS by "pack_cis /lib/firmware/cis/src/xxx.cis" instead of "IHEX /lib/firmware/cis/xxx.cis". In that case, the "pack_cis" tool should be included in the kernel-tree. Ken. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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