Re: next-20210302 - build issue with linux-firmware and rtl_nic/ firmware.

From: Valdis Klētnieks
Date: Wed Mar 03 2021 - 08:11:00 EST


On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 07:51:06 +0100, Heiner Kallweit said:
> > # Firmware loader
> > CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="rtl_nic/rtl8106e-1.fw"
> > CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware"
> >
> This is wrong, simply remove it.

> > But then I take a closer look at drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
> > #define FIRMWARE_8168D_1 "rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw"
> > #define FIRMWARE_8168D_2 "rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw"
> > #define FIRMWARE_8168E_1 "rtl_nic/rtl8168e-1.fw"

Yes, but then how are *these* filenames supposed to work? Is a userspace helper
supposed to be smart enough to append the .xz, and the EXTRA_FIRMWARE variant
for embedding out-of-tree firmware has to point at an uncompressed version?