From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-firmware: Add a new bnx2x FW 7.0.20.0 Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:04:18 +0100 Message-ID: <1308045859.3450.6.camel@i7.infradead.org> References: <201106141241.40764.vladz@broadcom.com> <1308044887.3450.4.camel@i7.infradead.org> <201106141257.40621.vladz@broadcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , Eilon Greenstein , Dmitry Kravkov , Yaniv Rosner To: Vlad Zolotarov Return-path: Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:40704 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755776Ab1FNKEU (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jun 2011 06:04:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <201106141257.40621.vladz@broadcom.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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