From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754980AbaHUMbs (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2014 08:31:48 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:60914 "EHLO out2-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754685AbaHUMbq (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2014 08:31:46 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: 86ZWeV2GzWfnkwBzl5QgE2yQ9UfdnQ29RJY7c9puuUhq 1408624305 Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 09:31:33 -0300 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh To: Tadeusz Struk Cc: David Woodhouse , linux-firmware@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Automatically pull missing FW files Message-ID: <20140821123133.GB14973@khazad-dum.debian.net> References: <20140820182145.15596.86122.stgit@tstruk-mobl1> <1408559681.11365.1.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <53F4F533.5010308@intel.com> <1408567140.9484.0.camel@infradead.org> <53F509AF.9010707@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <53F509AF.9010707@intel.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint1: 4096R/39CB4807 C467 A717 507B BAFE D3C1 6092 0BD9 E811 39CB 4807 X-GPG-Fingerprint2: 1024D/1CDB0FE3 5422 5C61 F6B7 06FB 7E04 3738 EE25 DE3F 1CDB 0FE3 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 20 Aug 2014, Tadeusz Struk wrote: > What for? The point is that you don't have the FW binary file and you > have to download it, which can happen automatically and this is what > this patch does. The director where it will be stored doesn't really > matter here. "git pull" will at least tell you something is seriously wrong (if you know the firmware tree should never require a forced update, that is). I'd really appreciate if the firmware tree had signed tags or signed commits, though. Those at least provide decent end-to-end security (both at rest, and while in transit) for data once it has been "git push"'d. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh