netdev - Re: Pushing the new FW to firmware git

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Date:	Mon, 23 May 2011 16:48:14 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Vlad Zolotarov <vladz@...adcom.com>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Pushing the new FW to firmware git

On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 18:12 +0300, Vlad Zolotarov wrote:
> David, could u, pls., clarify about the exact procedure of pushing the new FW 
> to the  firwmware git: when exactly the new firware is going to be fetched to 
> the kernel tree? 
> 
> I'm asking it because I am going to submit a patch that introduces a new FW 
> and the new code will simply not work with an old FW. 

OK, so the new firmware gets a new filename, and you submit the new
firmware to the linux-firmware.git tree at the same time as you submit
the code changes to the kernel tree.

-- 
dwmw2

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