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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:14:26 -0700 From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> To: Karl Relton <karllinuxtest.relton@...world.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging/wlan-ng: Convert firmware loading to load binary ihex format 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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