From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1FA16C4345F for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2024 12:56:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) id 106A1C3277B; Wed, 17 Apr 2024 12:56:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E8877C072AA; Wed, 17 Apr 2024 12:56:48 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1713358609; bh=bEePnxse+2I8XzUO+l8wK/LeFQ1L2SJAzaYTvMp6hCg=; h=From:To:List-Id:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=d7wRYvHPWdssaEVt/RjNMmvXBCB4Mt/2JPVFM1viY/vgtr5DrgQbsMXQXPauXeujk 7g9ftrmY/v04m7f030FW7JzWPHyC0/RaswZksWQVNIRsvqrA0seZnvbZTpv2A0PSt9 zOXmlzX4n1YYSNt7oV7gFqWF67+8pCiI1WGIBZXTbQHK9465m/gfXMIX/qBVLIdmVl GErCwclEODEVUdL9CT190AViFnuMn2nw8sx4TMTY/lNsAWGM+LI3td9dmoU0Cb7vQl 8pQBa1cmqqO2/7OfgNi62s5UooFeVCXruloH3LXRt7795yjm4y7OvK6iDEXy8fcSTY FPwUzq/MAaqvg== From: Kalle Valo To: Johannes Berg List-Id: Cc: linux-firmware@kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com Subject: Re: putting future iwlwifi firmware into intel/ ? References: Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:56:47 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Johannes Berg's message of "Wed, 17 Apr 2024 13:18:03 +0200") Message-ID: <87v84gi1v4.fsf@kernel.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Johannes Berg writes: > Since I was just looking at some firmware related thing (files for the > hardware that might be shared between Intel BT and WiFi), I noticed that > just over 30% of the files/dirs in the top-level firmware tree are > iwlwifi-* files. > > While we can't move the files that older drivers might consume, we could > e.g. change the driver to look up future versions/future hardware under > intel/ instead? Would that be worth doing? Yes, please. It would be nice to cleanup linux-firmware.git top level directory. But what about this: * convert iwlwifi to first use _all_ files under intel/ and then as a fallback top level directory * move existing iwlwifi firmware files to intel/ but create symlinks from the old location to the new one (using 'Link:' in WHENCE) * add new files only to intel/ directory * after few (4?) years remove the symlinks from linux-firmware and the fallback from iwlwifi This should ensure backwards compatibility, right? -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches