I believe that making that change would cause extra controversy that I don't need, and make it harder for me to get what I _actually_ care about merged -- which is the basic conversion to request_firmware(). But as I said, if _you_ want to start converting drivers and posting patches which add raw binary blobs in the firmware/ directory, please feel free. If they go in without comment, I'll be happy to admit that I was wrong and start doing raw binaries in future. -- dwmw2 --

There's plenty of excuses. The fact that we don't have any binary blobs in the tree is a fairly big hint -- they're not easily processed by the tools we use (like 'diff'). I'm keen to avoid unnecessary controversy while I convert drivers to request_firmware(). I don't want to convert the existing ASCII representations into raw binary blobs right now, because it's not my primary focus and I don't care enough about it to fight that battle. If you want to follow up with a patch to remove .ihex f...

Provide a helper to load the file and validate it in one call, to simplify error handling in the drivers which are going to use it. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> --- include/linux/ihex.h | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/ihex.h b/include/linux/ihex.h index 3da4855..2f3d8b4 100644 --- a/include/linux/ihex.h +++ b/include/linux/ihex.h @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ #include <linux/types.h> #in...

We want the rcvPhyPkt bit in LinkControl off before we start using the chip. However, the spec says that the reset value of it is undefined. Hence switch it (and all other bits while we are at it) explicitly off. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=244576#c48 shows that for example the nForce2 integrated FireWire controller seems to have it on by default. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> --- drivers/firewire/fw-ohci.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertio...

The powerpc little-endian bitops have no arch-specific optimisations. Remove clashing macros from these headers. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> --- include/asm-generic/bitops/le.h | 1 - include/asm-powerpc/bitops.h | 34 +--------------------------------- 2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/asm-generic/bitops/le.h b/include/asm-generic/bitops/le.h index a51c4ca..08c5df3 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/bitops/le.h +...

If you look at the current version of this header you'll see it includes several other bitops headers at around this point. I tend to follow the conventions I see. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. --

Define the macros topology_{physical_package,core}_id() and topology_{thread,core}_siblings() in <asm-generic/topology.h> if they are not already defined. Move inclusion of <asm-generic/topology.h> after definitions of these macros in <asm-powerpc/topology.h> and <asm-x86/topology.h>. Change drivers/base/topology.c to use the topology macros unconditionally and to cope with definitions that aren't lvalues. Update documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings...

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cayman_defconfig fails to build with the following error (using binutils 2.18.50.0.7): <-- snip --> ... LD drivers/macintosh/built-in.o LD drivers/media/common/tuners/built-in.o CC [M] drivers/media/common/tuners/tuner-xc2028.o CC [M] drivers/media/common/tuners/tuner-simple.o CC [M] drivers/media/common/tuners/tuner-types.o CC [M] drivers/media/common/tuners/mt20xx.o CC [M] drivers/media/common/tuners/tda8290.o CC [M] drivers/media/common/tuners/tea576...

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Still, have the fix reached the Linus' tree already? Rafael --

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