From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@kernel.org>
To: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-firmware@kernel.org, Adam Sampson <ats@offog.org>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND v2 05/16] WHENCE: comment out duplicate MediaTek firmware
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 07:42:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+5PVA7MLRQwygXZbCscpJ=8hDnvQ6A4wOvNG-9zJO73+hXgAw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACvgo517Ld+e-AWqSkfzKtKBMfZcHHP50xU_WJJeqK9RefZ1kQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 3:57 PM Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 at 18:08, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
>
> > I think this is a case where both should be listed. If you comment
> > one out and the other entry gets removed, perhaps because none of the
> > upstream kernels support the driver any longer, then the installation
> > will not copy the file to disk and the driver that is still in-tree
> > will now have missing firmware. I don't want to leave people without
> > a functioning system just because we wanted to avoid some text in
> > WHENCE.
> >
>
> That's a valid point, although I wonder if we have greater odds of
> witnessing the sun turn into red giant :-P
>
> Joking aside - I'll drop this patch and 6/16 while adding a "grep foo
> | sort -u" patch for copy-firmware.sh. Barring any objections of
> course.
No objections.
josh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-10 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-01 18:56 [PATCH RESEND v2 00/16] Misc fixes, sanity checks and xz/zstd compression Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 01/16] WHENCE: remove trailing white space Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-03-07 14:53 ` Josh Boyer
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 02/16] WHENCE: remove unnecessary filename quotation Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-03-07 14:56 ` Josh Boyer
2023-03-07 17:53 ` Emil Velikov
2023-03-07 18:01 ` Josh Boyer
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 03/16] check_whence, WHENCE, copy-firmware: escape filenames with spaces Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-03-07 14:58 ` Josh Boyer
2023-03-07 17:30 ` Emil Velikov
2023-03-07 18:00 ` Josh Boyer
2023-03-07 20:48 ` Emil Velikov
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 04/16] WHENCE: remove duplicate File entries Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-03-07 15:01 ` Josh Boyer
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 05/16] WHENCE: comment out duplicate MediaTek firmware Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-03-07 15:02 ` Josh Boyer
2023-03-07 17:19 ` Emil Velikov
2023-03-07 18:08 ` Josh Boyer
2023-03-07 20:57 ` Emil Velikov
2023-03-10 12:42 ` Josh Boyer [this message]
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 06/16] check_whence: error on duplicate file entries Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-03-07 18:12 ` Josh Boyer
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 07/16] check_whence: error on directory listed as File Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-03-13 20:24 ` Emil Velikov
2023-03-21 10:31 ` Emil Velikov
2023-03-29 14:47 ` Emil Velikov
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 08/16] copy-firmware: remove non-applicable file presence test Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-05-08 12:39 ` Josh Boyer
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 09/16] check_whence: error if File: is actually a link Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-05-08 12:41 ` Josh Boyer
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 10/16] check_whence: error if symlinks are in-tree Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-05-08 12:45 ` Josh Boyer
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 11/16] copy-firmware: remove unreachable symlink workarounds Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 12/16] copy-firmware: quote deskdir to prevent word splitting Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-05-08 12:47 ` Josh Boyer
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 13/16] copy-firmware: tweak sed invocation Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-05-08 12:48 ` Josh Boyer
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 14/16] copy-firmware: quote the output of dirname Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 15/16] copy-firmware: silence the last shellcheck warnings Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 16/16] Makefile, copy-firmware: support xz/zstd compressed firmware Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-03-06 14:23 ` Emil Velikov
2023-05-08 12:51 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 00/16] Misc fixes, sanity checks and xz/zstd compression Josh Boyer
2023-05-20 11:05 ` Emil Velikov
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