This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
firmware: cleanup FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL message
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: firmware-cleanup-firmware_in_kernel-message.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From 0946b2fb38fdb6585a5ac3ca84ac73924f645952 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Robin H. Johnson" robbat2@gentoo.org Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 14:36:12 -0800 Subject: firmware: cleanup FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL message
From: Robin H. Johnson robbat2@gentoo.org
commit 0946b2fb38fdb6585a5ac3ca84ac73924f645952 upstream.
The help for FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL still references the firmware_install command that was recently removed by commit 5620a0d1aacd ("firmware: delete in-kernel firmware").
Clean up the message to direct the user to their distribution's linux-firmware package, and remove any reference to firmware being included in the kernel source tree.
Fixes: 5620a0d1aacd ("firmware: delete in-kernel firmware"). Cc: Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro@socionext.com Cc: David Woodhouse dwmw2@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson robbat2@gentoo.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- drivers/base/Kconfig | 25 +++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/base/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig @@ -91,22 +91,23 @@ config FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL depends on FW_LOADER default y help - The kernel source tree includes a number of firmware 'blobs' - that are used by various drivers. The recommended way to - use these is to run "make firmware_install", which, after - converting ihex files to binary, copies all of the needed - binary files in firmware/ to /lib/firmware/ on your system so - that they can be loaded by userspace helpers on request. + Various drivers in the kernel source tree may require firmware, + which is generally available in your distribution's linux-firmware + package. + + The linux-firmware package should install firmware into + /lib/firmware/ on your system, so they can be loaded by userspace + helpers on request.
Enabling this option will build each required firmware blob - into the kernel directly, where request_firmware() will find - them without having to call out to userspace. This may be - useful if your root file system requires a device that uses - such firmware and do not wish to use an initrd. + specified by EXTRA_FIRMWARE into the kernel directly, where + request_firmware() will find them without having to call out to + userspace. This may be useful if your root file system requires a + device that uses such firmware and you do not wish to use an + initrd.
This single option controls the inclusion of firmware for - every driver that uses request_firmware() and ships its - firmware in the kernel source tree, which avoids a + every driver that uses request_firmware(), which avoids a proliferation of 'Include firmware for xxx device' options.
Say 'N' and let firmware be loaded from userspace.
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from robbat2@gentoo.org are
queue-4.14/firmware-cleanup-firmware_in_kernel-message.patch