From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: carl9170 firmware
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:26:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201204182026.49607.chunkeey@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F8DC439.103@lwfinger.net>
On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 09:27:53 PM Larry Finger wrote:
> On 04/17/2012 01:35 PM, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> > On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 07:25:25 PM Larry Finger wrote:
> >> A question regarding adding carl9170-1.fw to the openSUSE firmware package is
> >> being discussed on the oS kernel mailing list; however, I do not see that one
> >> in the linux-firmware git repo. Should it be there?
> > Does the repo take source code releases? [much like the work we do for the
> > kernel driver, or have you ever seen a binary release on this ML :D ]. The
> > files on<http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/carl9170#Firmware_binary>
> > are just for convenience.
>
> AFAIK, the repo only takes binary files. With the source under GPL2, that should
> not be a problem; however, the fact that there are two versions with the same
> name would be trouble. Adding under that name has the possibility of breaking
> all the systems that use the other version.
I think I would need to read the opensuse ML discussion first to know why this
is a "big" deal suddenly. (do you have a link?)
On the other hand: I don't like the idea of supporting "old" & "new" firmwares.
Usually they get mixed up and then you end up with "new" reports for
"old" bugs. In fact, p54 users' complain about that alot.
Regards,
Chr
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-18 18:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-17 17:25 carl9170 firmware Larry Finger
2012-04-17 18:35 ` Christian Lamparter
2012-04-17 19:27 ` Larry Finger
2012-04-18 18:26 ` Christian Lamparter [this message]
2012-04-18 19:09 ` Larry Finger
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2011-09-14 9:50 ` Carl9170 Firmware Christian Lamparter
2011-09-14 13:09 ` J Igrap
2011-09-14 17:00 ` Christian Lamparter
2012-04-11 13:20 ` J Igrap
2012-04-11 16:54 ` Christian Lamparter
2012-04-11 17:24 ` J Igrap
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2011-09-13 21:21 Carl9170 firmware J Igrap
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