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

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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 along with the date of the commit to pull in that new firmware.

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From c20eeaedc8396ad549d4a31d746e2ceca3cf2481 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 | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/srcpkgs/linux-firmware/template b/srcpkgs/linux-firmware/template
index 66358c052182..1c456ef3e206 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/linux-firmware/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/linux-firmware/template
@@ -1,14 +1,16 @@
 # 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