[OE-core] [RFC][PATCH] linux-firmware: update, merge in OE classic updates, fix packaging

[Koen Kooi]

Op 10 okt. 2011, om 14:35 heeft Otavio Salvador het volgende geschreven:

> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 09:26, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
>> Op 10 okt. 2011, om 14:22 heeft Otavio Salvador het volgende geschreven:
>>> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 04:27, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
>>>> Op 10 okt. 2011, om 03:03 heeft Otavio Salvador het volgende geschreven:
>>>>> On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 07:06, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
>>>>>> Update: move to latest SRCREV, use non-kernel.org URI
>>>>>> Merge: wl12xx symlink + packaging, install all firmwares
>>>>>> Fix: * all entries in PACKAGES are in PROVIDES already
>>>>>>     * A package always RPROVIDES itself
>>>>>>     * A file can only get packaged *once* so only one rtlwifi package will get the license
>>>>> 
>>>>> I dislike the idea of one single package with all firmwares. I prefer
>>>>> to have many small packages but one meta that depends on it.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm not going to make a patch to subpackage *all* the firmwares. If you can give me a list of the ones you use I'll make a patch to split those out.
>>> 
>>> Leave the ones that exist now and move the rest to ${PN}-others so
>>> people can test using it and split from it  when need.
>> 
>> I don't see the value of naming the unsplit firmwares something else as ${PN} at this point, OE classic doesn't have it either.
> 
> This make clear that useing the others package is a workaround and
> thus people can submit patches to add a specific package and move out
> to it. Using PN would make it to easy to forgot.

It would also break existing users for linux-firmware, so I propose to let this patch go in as-is and have people with strong opinion on package splitting send a follow up patch.