From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757521Ab0ERNhF (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 May 2010 09:37:05 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:60953 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757503Ab0ERNhB (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 May 2010 09:37:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 06:33:36 -0700 From: Greg KH To: CaT Cc: Linus Torvalds , bzolnier@gmail.com, stable@kernel.org, ben@decadent.org.uk, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.34 (rt2860 regression) Message-ID: <20100518133336.GA23591@kroah.com> References: <20100518114426.GY2657@zip.com.au> <20100518125539.GA23181@kroah.com> <20100518131706.GZ2657@zip.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100518131706.GZ2657@zip.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:17:06PM +1000, CaT wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 05:55:39AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > I do not understand. The firmware is now part of the linux-firmware > > tree, and if you install that, it is working just fine, right? We moved > > the firmware out of the kernel tree on purpose. > > > > So what is the problem here? > > Well, the driver used to work and appears to be useless without it. I guess > I'm wondering why it was kept out of the firmware directory where all the > other firmware lives (and so allow the driver to simply continue to work > and allow it to be compiled in). Because we are not adding new firmware to the kernel tree wherever possible, but instead, putting it in the separate linux-firmware tree. > At the moment all the change appears to have done is break things that have > been working without issue since before the driver was even in staging. Just update the linux-firmware package and all will be working again. We've been moving the firmware out of the staging drivers for a while now, as they don't belong in the kernel tree. thanks, greg k-h