[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] linux-firmware: fix install for Chelsio T[45]

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> writes:

 > Ricardo, All,
 > On 2018-01-14 21:41 -0200, Ricardo Martincoski spake thusly:
 >> It's broken for the last 3 version bumps, since
 >> 1c9846ecc9 "linux-firmware: Bump to the latest version"
 >> 
 >> Fix it by updating the name of the file to install.
 >> Do not use * since it would install also old versions that would take
 >> 1MB extra space in the target.

 > I would prefer if we were to keep installing the older version, because
 > presumably older kernel versions (even if they request the unversionned
 > t4fw.bin) would probably have been working with earlier versions of the
 > firmware, so I'd prefer we leave to the user the option to redirect the
 > symlink to the correct version they want to use.

That might indeed be nice, but should be done as a separate patch. A
nice thing about install t4fw*bin would be that this kind of problems
wouldn't happen again.

Will you send a patch?

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard