From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:45830 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754975Ab1EXQLJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2011 12:11:09 -0400 Received: by fxm17 with SMTP id 17so4767293fxm.19 for ; Tue, 24 May 2011 09:11:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Christian Lamparter To: Marius Ladegaard Meyer Subject: Re: carl9170 fw 1.9.3 on the binary archive page Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 18:11:04 +0200 Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Message-Id: <201105241811.05128.chunkeey@googlemail.com> (sfid-20110524_181113_198702_4099DBE4) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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