From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754482AbZDNC1A (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:27:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751268AbZDNC0v (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:26:51 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:39460 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751195AbZDNC0v (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:26:51 -0400 Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:24:18 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Ben Hutchings Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Woodhouse , Darren Salt Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix rt28{6,7}0sta to use firmware loader Message-ID: <20090414022418.GA17760@suse.de> References: <1239589992.18110.117.camel@deadeye.i.decadent.org.uk> <20090413024445.GA12860@suse.de> <1239667961.18110.166.camel@deadeye.i.decadent.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1239667961.18110.166.camel@deadeye.i.decadent.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 01:12:41AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 19:44 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 03:33:12AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > Greg, > > > > > > The Ralink drivers rt2860sta, rt2870sta and rt3070sta contain non-free > > > firmware which should be distributed separately. > > > > Where is it now distributed? I don't want to break people's machines > > that were working before this patch is applied. > > The canonical source is > Yes, and that is where I got the code that is in the driver tree that you are objecting to now :) > The files are now also in the Debian repository for our firmware-nonfree > package and in . > I've asked David Woodhouse to pull from that into his linux-firmware.git > so that they get into other distros. When David pulls it into his tree, and does a release, please let me know and I'll be glad to accept your patch. Until then, I can't accept this patch as it would break people's machines that were previously working. thanks, greg k-h