From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Lamparter Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] carl9170: Clarify kconfig text Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 19:10:57 +0200 Message-ID: <5517762.PotoMG0SZb@debian64> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: Lauri Kasanen , Kalle Valo , LKML , linux-wireless , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Linux Firmware Maintainers , sgruszka@redhat.com To: Xose Vazquez Perez Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Monday, April 18, 2016 06:47:44 PM Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > Christian Lamparter wrote: > > > Sure, but this could be a different patch then. I think Intel devices > > (iwlwifi, iwlegacy and ipw2x00) have a similar text about "download > > firmware from this device from our homepage here" too. So if we want, > > we can remove them altogether? > > linux-firmware.git does not contain firmware for all drivers. _At least_ > zd1211rw [1], atmel [2] and ipw2x00 [3] are out of the tree. Yeah, don't forget p54. It needs out-of-tree firmwares as well. But what about iwlegacy? Isn't that another candidate that would fit both requirements (no recent firmware update, firmware in linux-firmware.git) ? > [1] http://sf.net/projects/zd1211/files/ > [2] http://web.archive.org/web/20121016132320/http://at76c503a.berlios.de/fw_dl.html > [3] http://ipw2100.sf.net/firmware.php http://ipw2200.sf.net/firmware.php