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([2600:1700:70:f702:9c77:c230:a0ba:a1a1]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id de6-20020a05687075c600b002389f42604asm260223oab.30.2024.04.17.05.31.35 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 17 Apr 2024 05:31:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9aa64d50-cb4d-4118-bc27-86c23410ff8b@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 07:31:35 -0500 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: putting future iwlwifi firmware into intel/ ? Content-Language: en-US To: Johannes Berg , linux-firmware@kernel.org Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com References: From: Mario Limonciello In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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?