On Thu, 2017-09-14 at 14:33 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > The last firmware change for the in-kernel firmware source code was back > in 2013. Everyone has been relying on the out-of-tree linux-firmware > package for a long long time. > > So let's drop it, it's baggage we don't need to keep dragging around > (and having to fix random kbuild issues over time...) > > Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxxx> > Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > This has gone on too long, let's just drop it for 4.14. Any objections? Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> This has been the plan for a very long time, and we even agreed to do it at the Kernel Summit in Boston. ISTR there was one final technical thing we wanted to fix for the out-of-kernel tree which stopped me from sending the patch that day, but that's long since irrelevant now. Let's do it. Thanks.
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