Re: [PATCH] linux-firmware: add carl9170 firmware

[Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>]

On Thursday, January 17, 2013 10:26:44 PM Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 23:50 +0100, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> > On 01/14/2013 12:27 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > 
> > > OK, I've worked this out now: there are two post-processing steps
> > > required, one of which is done by './autogen.sh install', and one of
> > > which (add a checksum) is not done at all.  I've added that step to it
> > > and can now rebuild a bit-identical image.
> > > 
> > > So I've applied this, made a few fixes, and pushed.
> > 
> > Sorry, I took half sabbatical. Now cleaning inbox.
> > 
> > I believe Christian releases a new version(1.9.7) recently,
> > and I did send 1.9.6 months ago. It should be updated.

Depends. [This would be another question... what qualifies for
a new push to linux-firmware? Should there be one for every 
series-of-related-patches? release e.g.: 1.9.7, 1.9.8? Or after
the firmware passed the test of time?]

Anyway, the biggest 'new thing' in 1.9.7 was getting "Link Time 
Optimization" ready [1].
 
> I'm happy to take either a single patch for the new release or
> one patch for each commit in your repository, whichever you prefer.
Would it be possible to attach a carl9170fw-x.y.z-source.tar.xz/bz2/gz/zip
along the carl9170-1.fw binary instead of the source dump in carl9170fw/?
I've picked up all of Ben's carl9170fw patches and added them into 
carl9170fw-master. So in theory we are good to go.

Regards

Christian

[1] <https://github.com/chunkeey/carl9170fw/commit/1a2fbaf4f621cbb37f36637b1d4101f453474f7a>