Hello, On Tuesday 24 May 2011 14:39:16 Marius Ladegaard Meyer wrote: > I am currently maintaining packages in the AUR of Arch Linux for the > carl9170 driver and firmware. For the firmware package I use the binary > firmware files available at > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/chr/carl9170/fw/ I see in the > git repo of carl9170fw that version 1.9.3 was tagged two months ago, and I > would like to provide the newest version to Arch users. Would it be possible > for you to upload a binary to the aforementioned page please? making new releases is not the issue. But "testing" everything in every possible combination in different environments, with different configurations and different devices is a huge task... But I'm always baffled by distributions. Why do they insist on having a binary firmware image, when they can build one from scratch as well... After all, they do so for every other application/packet, right? Regards, Chr -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
