From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 21:10:31 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] linux-firmware: fix install for Chelsio T[45] In-Reply-To: <20180115165743.GB2533@scaer> (Yann E. MORIN's message of "Mon, 15 Jan 2018 17:57:43 +0100") References: <1515973281-3997-1-git-send-email-ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com> <1515973281-3997-2-git-send-email-ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com> <20180115165743.GB2533@scaer> Message-ID: <87o9luubm0.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN writes: > Ricardo, All, > On 2018-01-14 21:41 -0200, Ricardo Martincoski spake thusly: >> It's broken for the last 3 version bumps, since >> 1c9846ecc9 "linux-firmware: Bump to the latest version" >> >> Fix it by updating the name of the file to install. >> Do not use * since it would install also old versions that would take >> 1MB extra space in the target. > I would prefer if we were to keep installing the older version, because > presumably older kernel versions (even if they request the unversionned > t4fw.bin) would probably have been working with earlier versions of the > firmware, so I'd prefer we leave to the user the option to redirect the > symlink to the correct version they want to use. That might indeed be nice, but should be done as a separate patch. A nice thing about install t4fw*bin would be that this kind of problems wouldn't happen again. Will you send a patch? -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard