From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: Re:[PATCH kernel 2.6.32-rc5] pcnet_cs: add cis of PreMax PE-200 ethernet pcmcia card Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:46:19 +0000 Message-ID: <1267793179.2819.328.camel@localhost> References: <20091025111000.2d97e595.ken_kawasaki@spring.nifty.jp> <1267747341.2819.177.camel@localhost> <20100305202153.fb39cd64.ken_kawasaki@spring.nifty.jp> <20100305210151.b27ce31a.ken_kawasaki@spring.nifty.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-oCLxROCFW/hbpMXj/cBr" Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Woodhouse To: Ken Kawasaki Return-path: Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:57222 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750745Ab0CEMq0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 07:46:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20100305210151.b27ce31a.ken_kawasaki@spring.nifty.jp> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-oCLxROCFW/hbpMXj/cBr Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 21:01 +0900, Ken Kawasaki wrote: > Hi, > =20 > > The CIS files under firmware/ are, according to firmware/WHENCE, > > 'developed by the pcmcia-cs project'. So I had a look at what's left o= f > > the pcmcia-cs project and its last release, and found that it includes: > >=20 > > - the tool 'pack_cis' which compiles a text version of CIS to the > > standard binary format > > - text versions of most of the CIS files > >=20 > > Since the text versions contain comments which are excluded from the > > binary format, I believe they should be considered the 'preferred form > > for modification' and included in the linux-2.6 and linux-firmware tree= s > > along with the binaries. > >=20 > =20 > Actually, it is better to build CIS by "pack_cis firmware/cis/src/xxx.cis= " > instead of "IHEX firmware/cis/xxx.cis". > =20 > In that case, the "pack_cis" tool should be included in the kernel-tree. We don't include other firmware-building tools in the tree, even where they are free software. Why this one? Ben. --=20 Ben Hutchings Q. Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance or apathy? A. I don't know and I couldn't care less. --=-oCLxROCFW/hbpMXj/cBr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUAS5D9Gue/yOyVhhEJAQJYFw//VOL4Kbmk8csZjEK4r9pWFPwIkfayugRW EIhWJGMSgOlXzJkc8QW/SUicu+NYiIQy4N/5d+rkvlS3fnCyq5C8ueMLDE8yPnxT 1RF/93Zp60eRqNcw28S3kT8EJKwQsCF6pT0dZnRHVS6H9HGkYPkQNpYkV4UN3Zop pw10nK3yD86d4vR5d3QHVsszRsiVjK9FwzqK3pF4JawLi5cgbzM2ua2QEXS6k14T 0sI5cgCn1WPrAvVzoAFFZ+R8XVRqh24IzvIwE+9+OA0vYdNpi6kmOqVLSQZBSKO5 35VFgIuSHUZqNdkaTDM9Fn9Lnue8Ld+YGAJeVF7cLktOsE5VGYDAWHPvsMJAkrXv NSzLb79XidOF9tAKLpEqeTB9Ax3ccnzXsK0ksU/H+qOnD9YeGYP3+vi6MPYow81u qEJUj1MNlIlHUktlXvReS1ROhtKUjznIlZu5plHAIIhXHOaxgGBe2DBS7GPeQ58A eupi/ES9P5a8OyJAPRYppOCPwiYR8JX9o5jT7yIHg7x466QKK/Wzy4Vjo47JstEg 2k4MH9XnfteW51nQ9+qVtixmZ7KDBIqjwWFBzFth5kQjMD6C7wUAxAPKp7n1ToO4 2ZKDnwKb8jBQGSRaZeLA0KvaVGyrcsKsS6IWd/auTe8BMa3UduN4kwzDJF41FNnw Szm9pDoeWLM= =iJ8m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-oCLxROCFW/hbpMXj/cBr--