Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761479AbYGOU5x (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:57:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759048AbYGOU52 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:57:28 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:34328 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758657AbYGOU51 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:57:27 -0400 Subject: Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. From: David Woodhouse To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Andrew Morton , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sam@ravnborg.org In-Reply-To: <1216154956.26991.30.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> References: <1216077806.27455.85.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20080714164119.99c33d5b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1216079223.27455.92.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <200807152245.44817.rjw@sisk.pl> <1216154956.26991.30.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:57:24 -0700 Message-Id: <1216155444.26991.33.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 (2.22.3.1-1.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1556 Lines: 37 On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 13:49 -0700, David Woodhouse wrote: > Sam, why do we have FORCE on the rules for $(hostprogs-y)? It forces the > ihex2fw tool to be rebuilt, which in turn forces all .HEX->.fw > conversions to happen again, which means that 'make modules_install' > wants to write to the source tree. That's a problem in some strange > situations like Rafael's, where he builds on another host and exports > the tree read-only by NFS. > > Can we do this? ... Alternatively, Rafael, does this do it for you? --- a/firmware/Makefile +++ b/firmware/Makefile @@ -150,11 +150,11 @@ $(obj)/%: $(obj)/%.ihex | $(objtree)/$(obj)/$$(dir %) # is actually meaningful, because the firmware has to be loaded in a certain # order rather than as a single binary blob. Thus, we convert them into our # more compact binary representation of ihex records () -$(obj)/%.fw: $(obj)/%.HEX $(obj)/ihex2fw | $(objtree)/$(obj)/$$(dir %) +$(obj)/%.fw: $(obj)/%.HEX | $(obj)/ihex2fw $(objtree)/$(obj)/$$(dir %) $(call cmd,ihex2fw) # .H16 is our own modified form of Intel HEX, with 16-bit length for records. -$(obj)/%.fw: $(obj)/%.H16 $(obj)/ihex2fw | $(objtree)/$(obj)/$$(dir %) +$(obj)/%.fw: $(obj)/%.H16 | $(obj)/ihex2fw $(objtree)/$(obj)/$$(dir %) $(call cmd,h16tofw) $(firmware-dirs): -- dwmw2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/