On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 02:23:48PM +0300, Imre Deak wrote: > On to, 2016-07-07 at 17:57 +0300, Mika Kuoppala wrote: > > "Vivi, Rodrigo" <rodrigo.vivi@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > Nak. > > > > > > I don't intend to update the symbolic links on linux-firmware.git > > > repository anymore so if we receive a new minor version update we > > > are > > > not going to load. > > > > > > I was the one advocating in the favor for the symbolic link > > > flexibility > > > but I lost the discussions for the stability and validation etc. > > > > > > > And I was one advocating in favor of getting rid of symlink. But the > > filename versioning is superfluous as the contents has the version > > info > > which we can solely rely to not run something we dont want. > > > > So I am not sure what we lose in stability and validation front > > with the strict version check. > > Bisection is more cumbersome with a symlink. Did you miss a without there? Because when bisecting the kernel it's harder without the symlink as the build breaks otherwise and the runtime is not bisectable either. -Chris -- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
