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Dave Airlie 321eaf317d docs: driver-api: firmware: add driver firmware guidelines. (v3)
A recent snafu where Intel ignored upstream feedback on a firmware
change, led to a late rc6 fix being required. In order to avoid this
in the future we should document some expectations around
linux-firmware.

I was originally going to write this for drm, but it seems quite generic
advice.

v2: rewritten with suggestions from Thorsten Leemhuis
v3: rewritten with suggestions from Mauro

Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Acked-by: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220721044352.3110507-1-airlied@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-07-28 10:57:18 +02:00
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efi efi/libstub: Add libstub/mem.c to the documentation tree 2020-03-08 09:58:13 +01:00
built-in-fw.rst Documentation/driver-api: firmware/built-in-fw: drop doubled word 2020-07-10 14:58:00 +02:00
core.rst docs: driver-api: firmware: add driver firmware guidelines. (v3) 2022-07-28 10:57:18 +02:00
direct-fs-lookup.rst Documentation/driver-api: firmware/direct-fs-lookup: drop doubled word 2020-07-10 14:58:01 +02:00
fallback-mechanisms.rst docs: driver-api: firmware: fallback-mechanisms: Fix rendering of bullet point 2020-09-08 13:32:06 +02:00
firmware_cache.rst Documentation/driver-api: firmware/firmware_cache: drop doubled word 2020-07-10 14:58:00 +02:00
firmware-usage-guidelines.rst docs: driver-api: firmware: add driver firmware guidelines. (v3) 2022-07-28 10:57:18 +02:00
fw_search_path.rst
fw_upload.rst firmware_loader: Add sysfs nodes to monitor fw_upload 2022-04-26 12:35:55 +02:00
index.rst firmware_loader: Add firmware-upload support 2022-04-26 12:34:28 +02:00
introduction.rst
lookup-order.rst firmware: Add new platform fallback mechanism and firmware_request_platform() 2020-03-20 14:54:04 +01:00
other_interfaces.rst docs: Fix a misdirected kerneldoc directive 2019-05-24 14:31:50 -06:00
request_firmware.rst Documentation/driver-api: firmware/request_firmware: drop doubled word 2020-07-10 14:58:01 +02:00