From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754401AbZDTKTU (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:19:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753647AbZDTKTL (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:19:11 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:49320 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753362AbZDTKTL (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:19:11 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix rt28{6,7}0sta to use firmware loader From: David Woodhouse To: Greg KH Cc: Ben Hutchings , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Darren Salt In-Reply-To: <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> <20090414022418.GA17760@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:19:06 +0100 Message-Id: <1240222746.17844.35.camel@macbook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 (2.26.1-2.fc11) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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 > > > > 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 . > > 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?) -- dwmw2