From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753974AbZDFBUT (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Apr 2009 21:20:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752869AbZDFBUE (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Apr 2009 21:20:04 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:49229 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751549AbZDFBUD (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Apr 2009 21:20:03 -0400 Subject: Re: Staging: sxg: Add support to download the firmware using request_firmware() From: David Woodhouse To: Greg KH Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Mithlesh Thukral , Christopher Harrer In-Reply-To: <20090406010754.GA32630@suse.de> References: <200904051919.n35JJUUq031448@hera.kernel.org> <1238978493.11870.2.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20090406010754.GA32630@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:19:55 -0700 Message-Id: <1238980795.11870.12.camel@macbook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.0 (2.26.0-2.fc11) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 18:07 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Who do we email to add this to? Clone git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git, add your firmware (and update the WHENCE file accordingly), and send me a pull request. Preferably with a Signed-off-by: from within the company that owns the firmware in question. > And finally, what's wrong with adding new firmware images into the > firmware/ directory? What is the issue here? We're working on _removing_ this crap from the kernel source tree -- not adding new instances of it. We have a separate repository in which we're collecting redistributable firmware images, and the distributions are moving towards shipping that instead of just the legacy stuff from the kernel tree. Add any new firmware to that repository instead, as described above. -- dwmw2