From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com>
Cc: linux-firmware@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Automatically pull missing FW files
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 13:34:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1408559681.11365.1.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140820182145.15596.86122.stgit@tstruk-mobl1>
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On Wed, 2014-08-20 at 11:21 -0700, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
> Hi,
> When a binary FW file is not present in the firmware dir then the
> build will fail.
I'm not sure I understand. Precisely what fails?
I don't like this patch very much. We should be removing the legacy
firmware/ directory entirely, not patching it up.
Userspace is responsible for providing the firmware, and it should
generally come from an entirely separate checkout of the linux-firmware
repository.
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dwmw2
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-20 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-20 18:21 Tadeusz Struk
2014-08-20 18:34 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2014-08-20 19:21 ` Tadeusz Struk
2014-08-20 20:17 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2014-08-20 20:39 ` David Woodhouse
2014-08-20 20:48 ` Tadeusz Struk
2014-08-21 12:31 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
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