Hi James, On 10/8/15, 9:17 AM, "James Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >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. I¹ll send out patch to clean up firmware binaries which are not submitted to linux-firmware.git > >James > >
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