Re: [PATCH 2/3] debloat aic7xxx and aic79xx drivers

[Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>]

Hi Denys,

Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 April 2008 14:23, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
[ .. ]
>> What we have to do here is to modify aicasm to not print out the
>> unused definitions, and copy those (autogenerated) files over to
>> the *_shipped files to have them synced properly.
>> Hand-patching the *_shipped files is not a good idea.
> 
> I do understand this, and I do understnad then _shipped files
> are generated. But I failed to find out HOW they are generated.
> I don't want to _only_ patch aicasm/* files and skip checking
> that my changes work (or at least compile).
> 
> Please let me know how to regenerate these _shipped files,
> and I will fix it "correctly" by modifying aicasm/* files.
CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD is the trick.
Once it's enable there's a config option which allows you to
build the aic7xxx firmware files from scratch.

But you need my patch I just posted to linux-scsi, otherwise
aicasm will complain and not build anything.

Cheers,

Hannes
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