[PATCH] modules/firmware: add a new option to denote a firmware group to choose one.

Luis Chamberlain mcgrof at kernel.org
Wed May 24 05:40:03 UTC 2023


On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 03:35:41PM +1000, David Airlie wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 3:26 PM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof at kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hey Dave, just curious if there was going to be another follow up patch
> > for this or if it was already posted. I don't see it clearly so just
> > wanted to double check.
> 
> I'm still considering the options here.
> 
> I could leave the kernel patch as-is and add explicit sorting in
> dracut for anything in the groups, but then we have to name/version
> the firmware in a certain way, another option might be to emit the
> group bounds and two records, one old, one new per-fw file, then have
> some sort of explicit versioning by the driver over what order to load
> them.

Great thanks, just wanted to make sure I didn't neglect any pending
patch.

  Luis


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