From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] linux-firmware: fix install for Chelsio T[45]
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 21:10:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o9luubm0.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180115165743.GB2533@scaer> (Yann E. MORIN's message of "Mon, 15 Jan 2018 17:57:43 +0100")
>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> 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.
Will you send a patch?
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-15 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-14 23:41 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] linux-firmware: fail build for missing file Ricardo Martincoski
2018-01-14 23:41 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] linux-firmware: fix install for Chelsio T[45] Ricardo Martincoski
2018-01-15 16:57 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-01-15 20:10 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2018-01-15 20:31 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-01-15 20:08 ` Peter Korsgaard
2018-01-14 23:41 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/3] armbian-firmware: fail build for missing file Ricardo Martincoski
2018-01-15 16:53 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-01-15 17:07 ` Ricardo Martincoski
2018-01-15 17:17 ` Ricardo Martincoski
2018-01-15 20:11 ` Peter Korsgaard
2018-01-15 17:00 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] linux-firmware: " Yann E. MORIN
2018-01-15 20:05 ` Peter Korsgaard
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