From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758080Ab2GMVM0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:12:26 -0400 Received: from mms1.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.17]:1174 "EHLO mms1.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755412Ab2GMVMY (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:12:24 -0400 X-Server-Uuid: 06151B78-6688-425E-9DE2-57CB27892261 Subject: Re: [PATCH] bnx2: update bnx2-mips-09 firmware to bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b From: "Michael Chan" To: "Chris Webb" cc: "Eric Dumazet" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20120713140907.GT13885@arachsys.com> References: <20120713130405.GS13885@arachsys.com> <1342186932.3265.8364.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <20120713140907.GT13885@arachsys.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:12:13 -0700 Message-ID: <1342213933.7472.95.camel@LTIRV-MCHAN1.corp.ad.broadcom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-WSS-ID: 7C1E50883MK9978167-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=cp1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 15:09 +0100, Chris Webb wrote: > Is there a more automatic method than going through the source for each > configured driver and setting CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE manually to list the > relevant firmwares? Is there any way to give the kernel the location of > linux-firmware and have it compile in everything needed for the selected > drivers, as used to happen with the firmware/ subdirectory? > CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR doesn't seem to do anything with > CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE empty, so I don't think it does what I'm hoping? > Most users will just download the linux-firmware tree: //git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git and copy all the firmware files to /lib/firmware.