From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:49538 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751433AbdLKVx5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Dec 2017 16:53:57 -0500 Subject: Patch "firmware: cleanup FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL message" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree To: robbat2@gentoo.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, yamada.masahiro@socionext.com Cc: , From: Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 22:52:46 +0100 Message-ID: <151302916624081@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 know about it. >>From 0946b2fb38fdb6585a5ac3ca84ac73924f645952 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Robin H. Johnson" Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 14:36:12 -0800 Subject: firmware: cleanup FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL message From: Robin H. Johnson 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 Cc: David Woodhouse Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- 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