From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 21:31:50 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] linux-firmware: fix install for Chelsio T[45] In-Reply-To: <87o9luubm0.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> References: <1515973281-3997-1-git-send-email-ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com> <1515973281-3997-2-git-send-email-ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com> <20180115165743.GB2533@scaer> <87o9luubm0.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <20180115203150.GC11122@scaer> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Peter, All, On 2018-01-15 21:10 +0100, Peter Korsgaard spake thusly: > >>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN writes: > > > Ricardo, All, > > On 2018-01-14 21:41 -0200, Ricardo Martincoski spake thusly: > >> It's broken for the last 3 version bumps, since > >> 1c9846ecc9 "linux-firmware: Bump to the latest version" > >> > >> Fix it by updating the name of the file to install. > >> Do not use * since it would install also old versions that would take > >> 1MB extra space in the target. > > > I would prefer if we were to keep installing the older version, because > > presumably older kernel versions (even if they request the unversionned > > t4fw.bin) would probably have been working with earlier versions of the > > firmware, so I'd prefer we leave to the user the option to redirect the > > symlink to the correct version they want to use. > > That might indeed be nice, but should be done as a separate patch. A > nice thing about install t4fw*bin would be that this kind of problems > wouldn't happen again. Good idea. > Will you send a patch? In the making now... Regards, Yann E. MORIN. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'