netdev - Re: [PATCH] linux-firmware: Add a new bnx2x FW 7.0.20.0

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Message-ID: <1308045859.3450.6.camel@i7.infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:04:18 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Vlad Zolotarov <vladz@...adcom.com>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Eilon Greenstein <eilong@...adcom.com>,
	Dmitry Kravkov <dmitry@...adcom.com>,
	Yaniv Rosner <yaniv.rosner@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-firmware: Add a new bnx2x FW 7.0.20.0

On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 12:57 +0300, Vlad Zolotarov wrote:
> 
> What do u mean? I do have put the ihex files under the net-next kernel
> tree at the regular location plus I updated the the kernel's
> firmware/WHENCE and firmware/Makefile files and of course I ran a
> functionality tests for the driver after all patches and with the new
> firmware.

Ah, there lies your problem.

Never put new firmware into the kernel source tree. It doesn't belong
there.

In the linux-firmware tree we store the *binary* files, which go
directly into /lib/firmware as-is.

-- 
dwmw2

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