Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir

David Woodhouse
2008-09-11T15:31:22Z

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 17:24 +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> Did you read the second part of the mail explaining why having a
> single "firmware" package is not a good idea?

Yes, but it was nonsense, so I ignored it. "The reason for this is the
possibility that a driver and its firmware may be dropped from the
upstream kernel source." That doesn't happen very often, and you
_certainly_ don't need to immediately drop the firmware if it does.

It's another reason why it's better to be shipping from the external
linux-firmware repository at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git
-- because if a driver _does_ go away, that repository would continue to
carry the firmware files. But since that's such an infrequent
occurrence, there's no massive rush. Using the firmware in the kernel
tree is fine for now.

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