Re: [PR PATCH] [Updated] [RFC] linux-firmware: pull from commit hash instead of tag

[noarchwastaken <noarchwastaken@users.noreply.github.com>]

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There is an updated pull request by noarchwastaken against master on the void-packages repository

https://github.com/noarchwastaken/void-packages linux-firmware-20210518
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/31105

[RFC] linux-firmware: pull from commit hash instead of tag
This would enable faster support for new hardware, and avoid waiting for (possibly) two months just for `linux-firmware` to tag.

One can ask for hardware support with firmware not tagged yet but present in master, and we can update the commit hash to pull in that new firmware.

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A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/31105.patch is attached

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From 497e5214bf05ffd70eb45c646ed75dce207148f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: noarchwastaken <noarch@n0ar.ch>
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 21:51:53 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] linux-firmware: update to 20210518.

---
 srcpkgs/linux-firmware/template | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/srcpkgs/linux-firmware/template b/srcpkgs/linux-firmware/template
index 66358c052182..3e6728b8d572 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/linux-firmware/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/linux-firmware/template
@@ -1,14 +1,17 @@
 # Template file for 'linux-firmware'
 pkgname=linux-firmware
-version=20210511
+version=20210518
 revision=1
+_commit=f8462923ed8fc874f770b8c6dfad49d39b381f14
+wrksrc="${pkgname}-${_commit}"
 depends="${pkgname}-amd>=${version}_${revision} ${pkgname}-network>=${version}_${revision}"
 short_desc="Binary firmware blobs for the Linux kernel"
 maintainer="Érico Nogueira <ericonr@disroot.org>"
 license="See /usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}"
 homepage="https://www.kernel.org/"
-distfiles="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/snapshot/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=4c38e6a15775e2911e60898804f1d5720f8e3992a79487a5c1b2250df49a11c4
+distfiles="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/snapshot/${pkgname}-${_commit}.tar.gz"
+
+checksum=d88e207528b49e7ddc75cd370f8b7733f0e62ef586bb0d8b8778264fd60837a0
 python_version=3
 nostrip=yes