Yeah, this is pure crap. It doesn't even compile.
drivers/media/dvb-frontends/si2165.c:1063:17: error: expected ‘,’ or
‘;’ before ‘SI2165_FIRMWARE’
MODULE_FIRMWARE(SI2165_FIRMWARE);
because it should presumably say "SI2165_FIRMWARE_REV_D" now.
Why the f*ck do you send me totally untested crap?
Linus
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
<mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Linus,
>
> Please pull from:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media tags/media/topic/si2165-v3.17-rc8
>
> For some changes at the si2165 firmware name and the removal of an extra
> unneeded header added artificially via the script that extracts it from
> the original driver provided by the manufacturer.
>
> The si2165 is a new driver that was added for v3.17. There are two issues
> with the current firmware format:
>
> - The firmware only covers one specific revision of the chipset
> (Rev. D). We'll be adding support for another revision for v3.18, so
> it would be better to rename the firmware file to reflect the revision
> on its name:
>
> -#define SI2165_FIRMWARE "dvb-demod-si2165.fw"
> +#define SI2165_FIRMWARE_REV_D "dvb-demod-si2165-d.fw"
>
> - Instead of containing a single blob with the firmware, the file
> also contains some meta-data that could be determined on some other way
> directly by the driver.
>
> The script that gets the firmware from the Internet was also updated
> accordingly to not add the extra header.
>
> Thanks!
> Mauro
>
>
>
> The following changes since commit 90a5dbef1a66e9f55b76ccb83c0ef27c0bd87c27:
>
> Revert "[media] media: em28xx - remove reset_resume interface" (2014-09-28 22:25:24 -0300)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media tags/media/topic/si2165-v3.17-rc8
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 3173fbdce9e41fc4fabe0b3dedd99c615f47dbdd:
>
> [media] [V2,2/2] si2165: do load firmware without extra header (2014-10-02 18:18:52 -0300)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> topic/si2165 fixes for v3.17-rc8
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Matthias Schwarzott (2):
> [media] [V2, 1/2] get_dvb_firmware: si2165: drop the extra header from the firmware
> [media] [V2,2/2] si2165: do load firmware without extra header
>
> Documentation/dvb/get_dvb_firmware | 20 ++----
> drivers/media/dvb-frontends/Kconfig | 1 +
> drivers/media/dvb-frontends/si2165.c | 107 ++++++++++++++++++------------
> drivers/media/dvb-frontends/si2165_priv.h | 2 +-
> 4 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)
>
>
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