From: "Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>
To: "Jeff Mahoney" <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
"Brett Rudley" <brudley@broadcom.com>,
"Roland Vossen" <rvossen@broadcom.com>,
"Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" <frankyl@broadcom.com>,
"Kan Yan" <kanyan@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] brcmsmac: document firmware dependencies
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 21:19:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <502018B6.2070005@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50201846.2000606@suse.com>
On 08/06/2012 09:17 PM, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
> The brcmsmac driver requests firmware but doesn't document the
> dependency. This means that software that analyzes the modules to
> determine if firmware is needed won't detect it.
>
> Specifically, (at least) openSUSE won't install the kernel-firmware
> package if no hardware requires it.
>
> This patch adds the MODULE_FIRMWARE directives.
>
Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Gr. AvS
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-06 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-06 19:17 [PATCH] brcmsmac: document firmware dependencies Jeff Mahoney
2012-08-06 19:19 ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
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2012-07-25 22:57 Jeff Mahoney
2012-08-06 19:01 ` John W. Linville
2012-08-06 19:17 ` Jeff Mahoney
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