Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:31:08 -0700 |
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On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 17:24 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Did you read the second part of the mail explaining why having a > single "firmware" package is not a good idea?
Yes, but it was nonsense, so I ignored it. "The reason for this is the possibility that a driver and its firmware may be dropped from the upstream kernel source." That doesn't happen very often, and you _certainly_ don't need to immediately drop the firmware if it does.
It's another reason why it's better to be shipping from the external linux-firmware repository at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git -- because if a driver _does_ go away, that repository would continue to carry the firmware files. But since that's such an infrequent occurrence, there's no massive rush. Using the firmware in the kernel tree is fine for now.
-- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation
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