Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix rt28{6,7}0sta to use firmware loader

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>]

On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 19:24 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> 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
> > <http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html>
> 
> Yes, and that is where I got the code that is in the driver tree that
> you are objecting to now :)

You shouldn't have done. We stopped including firmware for new wireless
drivers _years_ ago. It's perfectly normal that users are expected to
fetch the firmware separately (or their distribution does it for them).
 
> > The files are now also in the Debian repository for our firmware-nonfree
> > package and in <http://git.decadent.org.uk/git/linux-firmware.git>.
> > I've asked David Woodhouse to pull from that into his linux-firmware.git
> > so that they get into other distros.

I'd be a lot happier with that having a signed-off-by from within
Ralink, even though the licence is unambiguous. But I've pulled it
anyway, this time. You can download the 'release' at
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD

(Still haven't really worked out what the best strategy for 'releases'
is, given that people should just be using the latest version from the
tree. Maybe an automatic git-archive from cron each day, if something's
change from the previous day?)

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dwmw2