From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756111AbYIKUjB (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:39:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751902AbYIKUix (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:38:53 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:60510 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751893AbYIKUiw (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:38:52 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir From: David Woodhouse To: Greg KH Cc: Marcel Holtmann , Thierry Vignaud , David Miller , jeffm@suse.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org In-Reply-To: <20080911201541.GA18518@kroah.com> References: <48C68507.6000609@suse.com> <1221087719.13621.50.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20080910.160505.14060698.davem@davemloft.net> <20080911134042.GB3293@kroah.com> <1221151165.6309.55.camel@californication> <20080911201541.GA18518@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:38:38 -0700 Message-Id: <1221165518.4077.17.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 13:15 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > This is the firmware that is in the kernel source tree, that has been > moved to use request_firmware, and was originally tied tightly to the > kernel drivers themselves. Not really. Most of it hasn't changed for years; it isn't _really_ tied that closely to the kernel. You can just ignore what the kernel ships with, and install the firmware from the linux-firmware.git repository instead. -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation