From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Kyle McMartin <kyle@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>,
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Restore support for built-in firmware
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 09:57:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170916165705.GB4577@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170916090116.GA1846@x4>
On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 11:01:16AM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> Commit 5620a0d1aac ("firmware: delete in-kernel firmware") removed the
> entire firmware directory. Unfortunately it thereby also removed the
> support for built-in firmware.
The goal was to delete the in-kernel firmware, why do you want to add it
back?
> This restores the ability to build firmware directly into the kernel by
> pruning the original Makefile to the necessary minimum. The default for
> EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR is now the standard directory /lib/firmware/.
But what firmware is this fixing the build for?
As I asked in the other email, I don't understand the problem here, but
it's early, and the Plumbers closing party lasted really late...
thanks,
greg k-h
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2017-09-16 9:01 [PATCH] firmware: Restore support for built-in firmware Markus Trippelsdorf
2017-09-16 16:57 ` Greg KH [this message]
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