From: Mario Limonciello <superm1@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>, linux-firmware@kernel.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com
Subject: Re: putting future iwlwifi firmware into intel/ ?
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 07:31:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9aa64d50-cb4d-4118-bc27-86c23410ff8b@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fec30176f437d565d4c1dfc4944373f117d75a64.camel@sipsolutions.net>
On 4/17/24 06:18, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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?
>
> johannes
>
How about moving them all now and then creating compat symlinks for
older kernels at linux-firmware 'make install' time?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-17 12:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-17 11:18 putting future iwlwifi firmware into intel/ ? Johannes Berg
2024-04-17 12:31 ` Mario Limonciello [this message]
2024-04-17 12:39 ` Johannes Berg
2024-04-17 12:42 ` Mario Limonciello
2024-04-17 12:45 ` Johannes Berg
2024-04-17 13:58 ` Mario Limonciello
2024-04-17 14:09 ` Johannes Berg
2024-04-17 14:14 ` Mario Limonciello
2024-04-17 12:56 ` Kalle Valo
2024-04-17 14:11 ` Johannes Berg
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