On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 09:04 -0800, Michael Chan wrote: > On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 04:00 -0800, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 15:04 +0000, Andy Gospodarek wrote: > > > > > > It looks like that firmware is in Linus' tree, but somehow it is not in > > > Woodhouse's linux-firmware tree. That seems odd. > > > > Yeah, that's just broken. If the driver/firmware ABI changes > > incompatibly and the kernel gets updated so that it can no longer use > > the older firmware, then driver maintainers *need* to put the new > > firmware into the firmware tree so that it actually gets to users. > > > > In this case it looks like they only updated the legacy firmware/ > > directory in the kernel source itself, that people don't really use any > > more and that is going to be going away real soon now. That's not very > > useful. > > > > Michael? Did you submit the new firmware for linux-firmware.git and I > > just missed it? If so, I apologise; please could you resend? > > > > Sorry, I didn't know about the linux-firmware git tree. I'll re-submit > the missing firmware files shortly. Thanks. The same problem happened again with bnx2x. You should *not* be adding new firmware to the source tree; add it to linux-firmware *instead*. -- dwmw2 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
