On Thu, 2015-10-08 at 15:46 +0000, Himanshu Madhani wrote: > > On 10/7/15, 4:41 PM, "Julian Calaby" <julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >Hi Xose, > > > >On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 2:13 AM, Xose Vazquez Perez > ><xose.vazquez@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Julian Calaby > >><julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >>> Some qla2xxx devices have firmware stored in flash on the device, > >>> however for debugging and triage purposes, Qlogic staff like to > >>> be able to load known-good versions of these firmwares through > >>> request_firmware(). > >>> > >>> These firmware files were never distributed and are unlikely to ever > >>> be released publically, so to hide these missing firmware files from > >>> scripts which check such things, (e.g. Debian's initramfs-tools) put > >>> them behind a new EXPERT Kconfig option. > >> > >> > >> What is state of this patch ? > > > >Apparently nobody cared, either from qLogic or linux-scsi. > > > >I'm not overly fussed whether it goes in or not, it was more a point > >in the discussion that proceeded it, however it does solve the > >problems in the discussion that preceded it. > > This patch Looks good. > > Acked-By: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@xxxxxxxxxx> Actually, this isn't helpful. You now add another option over which the distributions have to make a choice. Is this interface necessary and useful? If yes, then it should be compiled in and if not, just remove it ... don't do death by 1000 Kconfig options. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
