[oe] [PATCH] linux-firmware: split into bus specific packages.

[Otavio Salvador]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 17:08, Filip Zyzniewski
<filip.zyzniewski at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/14/11, Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>
>> I agree that this ought to be split but I think that it should be done
>> by vendor:
>> realtek, ralink and so on.
>
> What would be the point of such split?
>
> I have split it by buses, because currently having full support for
> PCMCIA devices on my Jornada 720, I have to install 13MB of PCI
> firmwares and 8.5MB of USB firmwares, which I will never use (because
> I have neither PCI nor USB bus on it) just to have available the 200kB
> of PCMCIA firmwares.
>
> Most of the firmwares in the repository are for removable devices - we
> (as the OE/distrubution maintainers) are by definition not able to
> know whose products will the user plug in.

Right but usually we'll have drivers/modules for one, two or three
vendors that are used or demanded to be supported and then those
firmware needs to be supported as well.

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