On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 09:27:53 PM Larry Finger wrote: > On 04/17/2012 01:35 PM, Christian Lamparter wrote: > > On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 07:25:25 PM Larry Finger wrote: > >> A question regarding adding carl9170-1.fw to the openSUSE firmware package is > >> being discussed on the oS kernel mailing list; however, I do not see that one > >> in the linux-firmware git repo. Should it be there? > > Does the repo take source code releases? [much like the work we do for the > > kernel driver, or have you ever seen a binary release on this ML :D ]. The > > files on<http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/carl9170#Firmware_binary> > > are just for convenience. > > AFAIK, the repo only takes binary files. With the source under GPL2, that should > not be a problem; however, the fact that there are two versions with the same > name would be trouble. Adding under that name has the possibility of breaking > all the systems that use the other version. I think I would need to read the opensuse ML discussion first to know why this is a "big" deal suddenly. (do you have a link?) On the other hand: I don't like the idea of supporting "old" & "new" firmwares. Usually they get mixed up and then you end up with "new" reports for "old" bugs. In fact, p54 users' complain about that alot. 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
