From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752321AbZHSSQl (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:16:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751411AbZHSSQl (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:16:41 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:48802 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751243AbZHSSQk (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:16:40 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:14:26 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Karl Relton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging/wlan-ng: Convert firmware loading to load binary ihex format Message-ID: <20090819181426.GA12827@kroah.com> References: <1250665599.4545.3.camel@localhost> <20090819154437.GA729@kroah.com> <1250698851.4323.9.camel@localhost> <20090819163439.GA3094@kroah.com> <1250703549.4323.16.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1250703549.4323.16.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 06:39:09PM +0100, Karl Relton wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 09:34 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 05:20:51PM +0100, Karl Relton wrote: > > > I plan to give the various distributions a utility to pre-compile the > > > firmware. It is based on ihex2fw.c. > > > > > > I don't think the firmware will ever be accepted into linux-firmware > > > because the original licensing cannot be established. > > > > Have you asked the company? > > Where is the firmware at today? > > > > At some point in the past the owner was Conexant, but we are not sure > they still own in. Some efforts to track down which company now owns > this firmware, and who the contact within that company would be, have > been made but have not been successful. > > The firmware is downloadable from the linux-wlan-ng project. I have been > liasing with the maintainer in that project, who has tried to help as > far as he could. Ok, I'm just worried that if I take this change, then users whose systems were working, will now break. So, why would this change actually help anyone out? thanks, greg k-h