From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Vlad Zolotarov <vladz@broadcom.com>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>,
Dmitry Kravkov <dmitry@broadcom.com>,
Yaniv Rosner <yaniv.rosner@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-firmware: Add a new bnx2x FW 7.0.20.0
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:04:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1308045859.3450.6.camel@i7.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201106141257.40621.vladz@broadcom.com>
On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 12:57 +0300, Vlad Zolotarov wrote:
>
> What do u mean? I do have put the ihex files under the net-next kernel
> tree at the regular location plus I updated the the kernel's
> firmware/WHENCE and firmware/Makefile files and of course I ran a
> functionality tests for the driver after all patches and with the new
> firmware.
Ah, there lies your problem.
Never put new firmware into the kernel source tree. It doesn't belong
there.
In the linux-firmware tree we store the *binary* files, which go
directly into /lib/firmware as-is.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-14 10:04 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <201106141241.40764.vladz@broadcom.com>
2011-06-14 9:48 ` [PATCH] linux-firmware: Add a new bnx2x FW 7.0.20.0 David Woodhouse
2011-06-14 9:57 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2011-06-14 10:04 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2011-06-14 10:10 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2011-06-14 10:16 ` David Woodhouse
2011-06-14 10:53 ` Vlad Zolotarov
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