On 10/7/15, 4:41 PM, "Julian Calaby" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Hi Xose,
>
>On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 2:13 AM, Xose Vazquez Perez
><[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Julian Calaby
>><[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Some qla2xxx devices have firmware stored in flash on the device,
>>> however for debugging and triage purposes, Qlogic staff like to
>>> be able to load known-good versions of these firmwares through
>>> request_firmware().
>>>
>>> These firmware files were never distributed and are unlikely to ever
>>> be released publically, so to hide these missing firmware files from
>>> scripts which check such things, (e.g. Debian's initramfs-tools) put
>>> them behind a new EXPERT Kconfig option.
>>
>>
>> What is state of this patch ?
>
>Apparently nobody cared, either from qLogic or linux-scsi.
>
>I'm not overly fussed whether it goes in or not, it was more a point
>in the discussion that proceeded it, however it does solve the
>problems in the discussion that preceded it.

This patch Looks good.

Acked-By: Himanshu Madhani <[email protected]>

>
>Thanks,
>
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