From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Vlad Zolotarov" Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/24] bnx2x: New FW and support for 578xx Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:22:40 +0300 Message-ID: <201106141922.40906.vladz@broadcom.com> References: <201106141213.34576.vladz@broadcom.com> <201106141432.32257.vladz@broadcom.com> <20110614.115402.426774711287563448.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Michael Chan" , "Bhanu (Venkata Bhanu Prakash) Gollapudi" , "Eilon Greenstein" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "Dmitry Kravkov" , "Yaniv Rosner" , "dwmw2@infradead.org" To: "David Miller" Return-path: Received: from mms2.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.18]:3417 "EHLO mms2.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750864Ab1FNQW7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:22:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110614.115402.426774711287563448.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tuesday 14 June 2011 18:54:02 David Miller wrote: > From: "Vlad Zolotarov" > Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:32:31 +0300 > > > We also send the new FW files to David Woodhouse. It's the first time we > > submit to the linux-firmware git so I hope we don't mess the things up: > > we DO NOT patch firmware/WHENCE and firmware/Makefile files in our > > net-next patches and we patch the WHENCE file in the linux-firmware > > patch. Dave, pls., confirm if it's a correct procedure. > > > > If it is, pls., note that the bnx2x driver will compile but won't work > > until u integrate the new FW into the kernel tree. > > David Woodhouse, what do you think we should do here? > > I'm inclined to integrate the firmware into net-next-2.6 since this > is the only way to keep the driver working consistently. > > Otherwise people won't be able to git bisect properly, and that sucks. Dave, as long as /lib/firmware contains all existing firmwares there should be no problems, isn't it? thanks, vlad