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Linus Torvalds b38923a068 Firmware removal patch for 4.14-rc1
Many many years ago (at the kernel summit in Boston), we all came to the
 agreement that the firmware/ tree should be dropped from the kernel, and
 everyone use the linux-firmware package instead.  For some minor reason,
 David Woodhouse didn't send the pull request at that point in time, and
 everyone forgot about this.
 
 The topic came up in the hallway track at the Plumbers conference this
 week, so here's a single patch that drops the whole firmware tree.  The
 last firmware update was back in 2013, and all distros have been using
 linux-firmware instead since at least that year, if not before.  The
 only commits to that directory since 2013 was some kbuild fixups for
 various build tool issues.
 
 So lets finally drop this, we don't need to lug them around in the
 kernel source tree anymore, especially as no one wants or uses them.
 
 This has passed build testing with 0-day, I don't think it made it into
 linux-next this week, but I figured it was good to get in before
 4.14-rc1 was out.
 
 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'firmware_removal-4.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

Pull firmware removal from Greg KH:
 "Many many years ago (at the kernel summit in Boston), we all came to
  the agreement that the firmware/ tree should be dropped from the
  kernel, and everyone use the linux-firmware package instead. For some
  minor reason, David Woodhouse didn't send the pull request at that
  point in time, and everyone forgot about this.

  The topic came up in the hallway track at the Plumbers conference this
  week, so here's a single patch that drops the whole firmware tree. The
  last firmware update was back in 2013, and all distros have been using
  linux-firmware instead since at least that year, if not before. The
  only commits to that directory since 2013 was some kbuild fixups for
  various build tool issues.

  So lets finally drop this, we don't need to lug them around in the
  kernel source tree anymore, especially as no one wants or uses them.

  This has passed build testing with 0-day, I don't think it made it
  into linux-next this week, but I figured it was good to get in before
  4.14-rc1 was out"

* tag 'firmware_removal-4.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core:
  firmware: delete in-kernel firmware
2017-09-15 12:58:55 -07:00
arch nios2 update for v4.14-rc1 2017-09-15 12:47:21 -07:00
block block: directly insert blk-mq request from blk_insert_cloned_request() 2017-09-11 16:43:57 -06:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: af_alg - get_page upon reassignment to TX SGL 2017-08-22 15:03:27 +08:00
Documentation Some cleanups and a big bug fix for ACLs. When I was reviewing Jan Kara's 2017-09-15 12:16:18 -07:00
drivers Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-09-14 18:54:01 -07:00
fs Some cleanups and a big bug fix for ACLs. When I was reviewing Jan Kara's 2017-09-15 12:16:18 -07:00
include vfs: constify path argument to kernel_read_file_from_path 2017-09-14 20:18:45 -07:00
init Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-09-14 18:54:01 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.ipc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-09-14 17:37:26 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'work.set_fs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-09-14 18:13:32 -07:00
lib Merge branch 'zstd-minimal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs 2017-09-14 17:30:49 -07:00
mm Merge branch 'work.read_write' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-09-14 19:29:55 -07:00
net Merge branch 'work.set_fs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-09-14 18:13:32 -07:00
samples media updates for v4.14-rc1 2017-09-07 12:53:14 -07:00
scripts Firmware removal patch for 4.14-rc1 2017-09-15 12:58:55 -07:00
security Merge branch 'work.set_fs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-09-14 18:13:32 -07:00
sound vfs: constify path argument to kernel_read_file_from_path 2017-09-14 20:18:45 -07:00
tools Kbuild updates for v4.14 2017-09-14 13:46:33 -07:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt First batch of KVM changes for 4.14 2017-09-08 15:18:36 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap power supply and reset changes for the v4.12 series (part 2) 2017-05-12 12:02:21 -07:00
COPYING
CREDITS selinux/stable-4.14 PR 20170831 2017-09-12 13:21:00 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-09-13 11:56:16 -07:00
Makefile Firmware removal patch for 4.14-rc1 2017-09-15 12:58:55 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.