Re: [PATCH] linux-firmware: Add a new bnx2x FW 7.0.20.0

On Tuesday 14 June 2011 13:04:18 David Woodhouse wrote:

On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 12:57 +0300, Vlad Zolotarov wrote:

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What do u mean? I do have put the ihex files under the net-next kernel
tree at the regular location plus I updated the the kernel's
firmware/WHENCE and firmware/Makefile files and of course I ran a
functionality tests for the driver after all patches and with the new
firmware.

Ah, there lies your problem.

Never put new firmware into the kernel source tree. It doesn't belong
there.

In the linux-firmware tree we store the *binary* files, which go
directly into /lib/firmware as-is.

Aha... Correct me if I got u wrong: to test it I need to manually copy the new .fw files into the /lib/firmware directory, install the clean net-next kernel with the driver that supports this new FW and it should work. Is it what u meant?

thanks,
vlad