Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Apr 2009 18:07:54 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Staging: sxg: Add support to download the firmware using request_firmware() |
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On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 05:41:33PM -0700, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 19:19 +0000, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/linus/cda3b517a478324233d9be71232b60e2e2efe848 > > Commit: cda3b517a478324233d9be71232b60e2e2efe848 > > Parent: e5ea8da06ba610551a75c79c1467aae379e953ce > > Author: Mithlesh Thukral <mithlesh@linsyssoft.com> > > AuthorDate: Fri Mar 20 17:39:04 2009 +0530 > > Committer: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> > > CommitDate: Fri Apr 3 14:53:14 2009 -0700 > > > > Staging: sxg: Add support to download the firmware using request_firmware() > > > > Add support for downloading the firmware using kernel-builtin mechanism. > > This will remove the need for the firmware files in the driver source code. > > > > Signed-off-by: Christopher Harrer <charrer@alacritech.com> > > Signed-off-by: Mithlesh Thukral <mithlesh@linsyssoft.com> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> > > --- > > drivers/staging/sxg/saharadbgdownload-1.71.c | 5233 ------------------------ > > drivers/staging/sxg/saharadbgdownloadB-1.10.c | 5251 ------------------------- > > drivers/staging/sxg/saharadownload-1.55.c | 4531 --------------------- > > drivers/staging/sxg/saharadownloadB-1.8.c | 4532 --------------------- > > drivers/staging/sxg/sxg.c | 206 +- > > firmware/Makefile | 2 + > > firmware/WHENCE | 12 + > > firmware/sxg/saharadbgdownloadB.sys.ihex | 3937 ++++++++++++++++++ > > firmware/sxg/saharadownloadB.sys.ihex | 3385 ++++++++++++++++ > > 9 files changed, 7437 insertions(+), 19652 deletions(-) > > NO! > > What the hell are you playing at, Greg? > > We don't want to be adding _new_ binary firmware into the firmware/ > directory -- that was only the temporary location for removing the > _existing_ crap.
Is that written anywhere that I missed? If so, sorry, I didn't realize that.
> We have the linux-firmware.git repository, into which we are collecting > new firmware blobs. Don't add them to the kernel sources.
Who do we email to add this to?
And finally, what's wrong with adding new firmware images into the firmware/ directory? What is the issue here?
thanks,
greg k-h
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