On Wed, 2024-04-17 at 07:31 -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote: > > On 4/17/24 06:18, Johannes Berg wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Since I was just looking at some firmware related thing (files for the > > hardware that might be shared between Intel BT and WiFi), I noticed that > > just over 30% of the files/dirs in the top-level firmware tree are > > iwlwifi-* files. > > > > While we can't move the files that older drivers might consume, we could > > e.g. change the driver to look up future versions/future hardware under > > intel/ instead? Would that be worth doing? > > > > johannes > > > > How about moving them all now and then creating compat symlinks for > older kernels at linux-firmware 'make install' time? > Didn't realize there even was a 'make install' time :-) But then I guess it'd be simpler in the driver since we could just unconditionally add the intel/ prefix to the request_firmware call. johannes
