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<subtitle>Linux kernel documentation tree maintained by Jonathan Corbet</subtitle>
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<title>docs: driver-api: firmware: add driver firmware guidelines. (v3)</title>
<updated>2022-07-28T08:57:18+00:00</updated>
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<name>Dave Airlie</name>
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<published>2022-07-21T04:43:52+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rodrigo Vivi &lt;rodrigo.vivi@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel@ffwll.ch&gt;
Acked-by: Harry Wentland &lt;harry.wentland@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220721044352.3110507-1-airlied@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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