From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755287Ab0IWP3R (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:29:17 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:38272 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750998Ab0IWP3Q (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:29:16 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] Add mkcis - a program that can create .cis from text description From: David Woodhouse To: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org In-Reply-To: <1285255197-9262-2-git-send-email-dbaryshkov@gmail.com> References: <1285255197-9262-1-git-send-email-dbaryshkov@gmail.com> <1285255197-9262-2-git-send-email-dbaryshkov@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:29:12 +0100 Message-ID: <1285255752.10687.20.camel@i7.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.33.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.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, 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