Re: putting future iwlwifi firmware into intel/ ?

Mario Limonciello
2024-04-17T12:31:38Z

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?