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On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 10:53 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:

> I'm still concerned about the bigger picture. I can understand that the -5 
> version was experimental, but why was a driver released that needed a firmware 
> version that could never be obtained? If any driver version needs a particular 
> firmware, the fw must be available as long as anyone might be using that driver. 
> To me, that means forever.

Well, yes. That firmware, however, never was never available publicly.
The fact that the driver was released anyway is due to us working on the
driver upstream while working with the experimental internal firmware.

johannes

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