Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:09:46 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] linux-firmware: add MISSING file | From | richard -rw- weinberger <> |
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On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com> wrote: > to document the reason why a firmware is not present > > Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org> > Cc: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de> > Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> > Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> > Cc: <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org> > Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> > Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com> > --- > MISSING | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 MISSING > > diff --git a/MISSING b/MISSING > new file mode 100644 > index 0000000..f228099 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/MISSING > @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ > + *********** > + * MISSING * > + *********** > + > +This file attempts to document the reason why a firmware is not present > +in this bundle.
From the user's point of view this not really helpful. Wouldn't a in-kernel table of known but missing firmware files make more sense? The kernel could write a log like "Yeah, I know this firmware but sadly I don't have it because of ..."
-- Thanks, //richard
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