Re: [PATCH] advansys: use request_firmware

Matthew Wilcox
2008-12-20T15:33:18Z

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 08:55:27PM +0530, Jaswinder Singh wrote:
> diff --git a/firmware/WHENCE b/firmware/WHENCE
> index 299301f..27105bc 100644
> --- a/firmware/WHENCE
> +++ b/firmware/WHENCE
> @@ -363,3 +363,16 @@ Licence: Allegedly GPLv2+, but no source visible. Marked:
> Copyright (C) 2001 Qlogic Corporation (www.qlogic.com)
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> +
> +Driver: SCSI_ADVANSYS - AdvanSys SCSI
> +
> +File: advansys/mcode.bin
> +File: advansys/3550.bin
> +File: advansys/38C0800.bin
> +File: advansys/38C1600.bin
> +
> +Licence: Allegedly GPLv2+, but no source visible.
> +
> +Found in hex form in kernel source.

I thought we discussed this before. If you take it from an earlier
version of the driver, you can get it under a disjunction of BSD and
GPL, and take the BSD option.

As far as I know, no source code has been published.

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