On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 10:38:33AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sven wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 10:35:50AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > > > * drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2100_fw.c > > > * drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2200_fw.c > > > * drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2300_fw.c > > > * drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2322_fw.c > > > * drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2400_fw.c > > > > Are those not those which have gone in the firmware-nonfree or whatever > > package which was uploaded yesterday to non-free ? > > Sort of. There is some version skew: > > file linux-2.6.17 firmware-nonfree-0.1 > ql2100_fw.c 1.19.25 01.19 > ql2200_fw.c 2.02.08 02.02.08 > ql2300_fw.c 3.03.20 03.03.20 > ql2322_fw.c 3.03.20 03.03.20 > ql2400_fw.c 4.00.18 4.0.22 > > I have not checked if the binary differences (or lack thereof) > are consistent with the version labels. > > Here is a snippet of drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/Kconfig: > ---- > config SCSI_QLA2XXX_EMBEDDED_FIRMWARE > bool " Use firmware-loader modules (DEPRECATED)" > depends on SCSI_QLA_FC > help > This option offers you the deprecated firmware-loader > modules that have been obsoleted by the usage of the > Firmware Loader interface in the qla2xxx driver. > ---- > > I have tried to figure out what it would take to drop those > five files from the kernel. It might "just work" to make > sure the above CONFIG option is disabled. > > Making that change alone would cut the number of > license regressions (relative to sarge) from 13 to 8.
We used to do this in older versions of the prune-non-free script, just do some svn repo archeology and you will find it. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
