From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Henningsson Subject: Re: Merging alsa-firmware into linux-firmware Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:30:59 +0200 Message-ID: <4C4704A3.7040803@canonical.com> References: <4C457C89.5040209@canonical.com> <4C45A538.2060704@ladisch.de> <4C45C521.4020208@canonical.com> <4C469959.7020600@ladisch.de> <4C46F6AE.3060208@canonical.com> <1279720939.6002.11.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from adelie.canonical.com (adelie.canonical.com [91.189.90.139]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71354243A8 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:31:02 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <1279720939.6002.11.camel@localhost> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: David Woodhouse Cc: Chase Douglas , "alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" , Clemens Ladisch List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On 2010-07-21 16:02, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 14:31 +0100, David Henningsson wrote: >> The emi26/emi62 firmware already exists in linux-firmware, so I won't >> merge them either (and that patch in the link is against linux-firmware >> and not alsa-firmware). > > I think the *wrong* version is in linux-firmware. But the alsa-firmware package currently puts the firmware into the emagic/ directory, which AFAIK is not used at all by the current kernel. > But nobody ever > offered a patch to fix that (only a kernel source patch). I think the link Clemens just posted goes to such a patch. -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. http://launchpad.net/~diwic