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

[Koen Kooi]

Op 11 okt. 2011, om 15:14 heeft Otavio Salvador het volgende geschreven:

> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 05:33, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> You merged packages, they were split already.

This commit doesn't merge subpackages, it splits off the wilink ones and packages previously unpackaged firmwares into ${PN}