Patch "firmware: cleanup FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL message" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

Patch "firmware: cleanup FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL message" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    firmware: cleanup FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL message

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     firmware-cleanup-firmware_in_kernel-message.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 0946b2fb38fdb6585a5ac3ca84ac73924f645952 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 14:36:12 -0800
Subject: firmware: cleanup FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL message

From: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>

commit 0946b2fb38fdb6585a5ac3ca84ac73924f645952 upstream.

The help for FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL still references the firmware_install
command that was recently removed by commit 5620a0d1aacd ("firmware:
delete in-kernel firmware").

Clean up the message to direct the user to their distribution's
linux-firmware package, and remove any reference to firmware being
included in the kernel source tree.

Fixes: 5620a0d1aacd ("firmware: delete in-kernel firmware").
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/base/Kconfig |   25 +++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/base/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig
@@ -91,22 +91,23 @@ config FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL
 	depends on FW_LOADER
 	default y
 	help
-	  The kernel source tree includes a number of firmware 'blobs'
-	  that are used by various drivers. The recommended way to
-	  use these is to run "make firmware_install", which, after
-	  converting ihex files to binary, copies all of the needed
-	  binary files in firmware/ to /lib/firmware/ on your system so
-	  that they can be loaded by userspace helpers on request.
+	  Various drivers in the kernel source tree may require firmware,
+	  which is generally available in your distribution's linux-firmware
+	  package.
+
+	  The linux-firmware package should install firmware into
+	  /lib/firmware/ on your system, so they can be loaded by userspace
+	  helpers on request.
 
 	  Enabling this option will build each required firmware blob
-	  into the kernel directly, where request_firmware() will find
-	  them without having to call out to userspace. This may be
-	  useful if your root file system requires a device that uses
-	  such firmware and do not wish to use an initrd.
+	  specified by EXTRA_FIRMWARE into the kernel directly, where
+	  request_firmware() will find them without having to call out to
+	  userspace. This may be useful if your root file system requires a
+	  device that uses such firmware and you do not wish to use an
+	  initrd.
 
 	  This single option controls the inclusion of firmware for
-	  every driver that uses request_firmware() and ships its
-	  firmware in the kernel source tree, which avoids a
+	  every driver that uses request_firmware(), which avoids a
 	  proliferation of 'Include firmware for xxx device' options.
 
 	  Say 'N' and let firmware be loaded from userspace.


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from robbat2@gentoo.org are

queue-4.14/firmware-cleanup-firmware_in_kernel-message.patch