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

[Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>]

On Monday, February 18, 2013 04:15:48 AM Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Sorry for the delay in replying to this.
I see. Well, thanks for the response.

> On Fri, 2013-01-18 at 00:52 +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> > On Thursday, January 17, 2013 10:26:44 PM Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > 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/?
> 
> Perhaps, but what would be the benefit?
Actually, I was thinking that having a single source.tar would be easier
to handle and it would cause less clutter (Yeah, I've seen people do cp -r
linux-firmware.git/* into /lib/firmware/. And in this case - I think - a
source.tar.xyz is less of an eyesore...). Also a single source.tar can be
easily signed and verified. But of course, it's your tree and therefore
it's your call.

[Note: Unless there is a bug that needs to be fixed ASAP, I'll wait for
gcc 4.8 to be ready before I make carl9170fw 1.9.8. So, there is plenty
of time to decide what to do.]

Regards
	Christian