Re: putting future iwlwifi firmware into intel/ ?

Johannes Berg
2024-04-17T12:39:44Z

On Wed, 2024-04-17 at 07:31 -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
>
> 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?
>

Didn't realize there even was a 'make install' time :-)

But then I guess it'd be simpler in the driver since we could just
unconditionally add the intel/ prefix to the request_firmware call.

johannes