netdev - Re: [PATCH kernel 2.6.32-rc5] pcnet_cs: add cis of PreMax PE-200 ethernet pcmcia card

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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.

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