From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756103AbYIKPbW (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:31:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752305AbYIKPbO (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:31:14 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:55919 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751780AbYIKPbO (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:31:14 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir From: David Woodhouse To: Frans Pop Cc: davem@davemloft.net, jeffm@suse.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, Jeff Garzik In-Reply-To: <200809111725.01511.elendil@planet.nl> References: <48C68507.6000609@suse.com> <200809111152.58187.elendil@planet.nl> <1221144627.8593.9.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <200809111725.01511.elendil@planet.nl> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:31:08 -0700 Message-Id: <1221147068.8593.31.camel@macbook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 (2.22.3.1-1.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 17:24 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Did you read the second part of the mail explaining why having a > single "firmware" package is not a good idea? Yes, but it was nonsense, so I ignored it. "The reason for this is the possibility that a driver and its firmware may be dropped from the upstream kernel source." That doesn't happen very often, and you _certainly_ don't need to immediately drop the firmware if it does. It's another reason why it's better to be shipping from the external linux-firmware repository at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git -- because if a driver _does_ go away, that repository would continue to carry the firmware files. But since that's such an infrequent occurrence, there's no massive rush. Using the firmware in the kernel tree is fine for now. -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation