[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] linux-firmware: fix install for Chelsio T[45]

[Yann E. MORIN]

Peter, All,

On 2018-01-15 21:10 +0100, Peter Korsgaard spake thusly:
> >>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> 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.

Good idea.

> Will you send a patch?

In the making now...

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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