From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] Add mkcis - a program that can create .cis from text description
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:29:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1285255752.10687.20.camel@i7.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1285255197-9262-2-git-send-email-dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 19:19 +0400, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
> For CIS files (describing hardware on PCMCIA and some other busses)
> binary file isn't the 'preferred for for modification' in most cases.
> pcmcia-cs project have developed pack_cis program which can be used
> (and was used most probably) to generate .cis files from simple text
> descriptions. Import this code to the kernel under the name of mkcis.
This is useful, thanks -- but NACK. The firmware/ directory of the
kernel will hopefully die soon, and is no longer what's actually shipped
by many distributions.
We should be concentrating on the linux-firmware.git repository instead.
--
David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-23 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-23 15:19 [PATCH 1/5] Makefile.fwinst: include Makefile.lib Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2010-09-23 15:19 ` [PATCH 2/5] Add mkcis - a program that can create .cis from text description Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2010-09-23 15:29 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2010-09-23 15:36 ` Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2010-09-23 15:54 ` David Woodhouse
2010-09-23 16:58 ` Wolfram Sang
2010-09-23 16:55 ` Gene Heskett
2010-09-23 15:19 ` [PATCH 3/5] firmware: enable usage of mkcis Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2010-09-23 15:19 ` [PATCH 4/5] firmware: replace ihex files with text descriptions for CIS files Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2010-09-23 15:19 ` [PATCH 5/5] Documentation: add an utility to parse CIS files to readable form Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2010-09-23 15:45 ` [PATCH 1/5] Makefile.fwinst: include Makefile.lib Sam Ravnborg
2010-09-24 16:49 [PATCH 0/5] Add programs to work with CIS files Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2010-09-24 16:49 ` [PATCH 2/5] Add mkcis - a program that can create .cis from text description Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
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