From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756909Ab3ANXF0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:05:26 -0500 Received: from c60.cesmail.net ([216.154.195.49]:28839 "EHLO c60.cesmail.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756555Ab3ANXFZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:05:25 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 580 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:05:25 EST Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:55:33 -0500 From: Pavel Roskin To: richard -rw- weinberger Cc: Xose Vazquez Perez , Daniel Drake , Ulrich Kunitz , David Woodhouse , Ben Hutchings , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-firmware: add MISSING file Message-ID: <20130114175533.4f184cd3@mj> In-Reply-To: References: <1358030383-15609-1-git-send-email-xose.vazquez@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.8; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:09:46 +0100 richard -rw- weinberger wrote: > > +This file attempts to document the reason why a firmware is not > > present +in this bundle. > > From the user's point of view this not really helpful. > Wouldn't a in-kernel table of known but missing firmware files make > more sense? The kernel could write a log like "Yeah, I know this > firmware but sadly I don't have it because of ..." The firmware file may be absent on the system even if it's in the linux-firmware tree. Conversely, the firmware may be present on the system but not in the linux-firmware tree. The kernel doesn't know whether the firmware is missing due to licensing issues or due to misconfiguration. The kernel cannot know that. And I don't think the kernel should include as much information as the MISSING file would include. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin