Re: [PATCH] firmware: delete in-kernel firmware

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Thu Sep 14 2017 - 17:39:20 EST


On Thu, 2017-09-14 at 14:33 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> The last firmware change for the in-kernel firmware source code was back
> in 2013. Everyone has been relying on the out-of-tree linux-firmware
> package for a long long time.
>
> So let's drop it, it's baggage we don't need to keep dragging around
> (and having to fix random kbuild issues over time...)
>
> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> This has gone on too long, let's just drop it for 4.14. Any objections?

Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This has been the plan for a very long time, and we even agreed to do
it at the Kernel Summit in Boston. ISTR there was one final technical
thing we wanted to fix for the out-of-kernel tree which stopped me from
sending the patch that day, but that's long since irrelevant now. Let's
do it.

Thanks.

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