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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Subject: In tree firmware not kept up to date
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:11:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1334675504.23948.99.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> (raw)

Hello,

What is the current policy wrt keeping the in-tree firmware updated
alongside the drivers?

I use CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL but a couple of times[0] recently this
has failed me because the in-tree bnx2 driver requires
bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw but the tree contains
firmware/bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1a.fw.ihex and not 6.2.1b.

Is it a bug that bnx2 was updated without adding the new firmware or is
a bug that the obsolete firmware is still sitting in the tree?

Ian.

[0] It's possible the same thing and I've just tripped over it more than
once now.


             reply	other threads:[~2012-04-17 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-17 15:11 Ian Campbell [this message]
2012-04-17 17:01 ` Michael Chan
2012-04-17 19:03 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-04-18  9:13   ` Ian Campbell

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