Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT] Networking | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:34:28 +0000 |
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On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 11:49 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > [ Apart from the annoyance of also having to manually copying the > firmware files: why the heck doesn't that firmware tree even have a > "make firmware-install" makefile or something? The kernel has a "make > firmware-install" thing, why doesn't the firmware tree itself have > that?
Yeah, the main reason I haven't yet submitted a patch to remove the legacy firmware/ directory from the kernel source, as discussed at the Kernel Summit, is because I need to implement some makefiles for the firmware tree first.
I'll do a 'make install' for the firmware tree which installs it all, and lets you specify min/max kernel versions so you can omit stuff that *really* isn't relevant.
I also want to preserve the CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL option, but that can't easily be based on the hardcoded knowledge of the config options; it wants to be based on the MODULE_FIRMWARE tags of the built-in drivers. And once we're enumerating those, it should be relatively simple to warn about missing firmwares in the non-FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL case too.
I didn't find the time to do that for the 2.6.38 merge window, but I should get it done for 2.6.39.
-- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation
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