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Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 19:33:49 -0700 From: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Mithlesh Thukral <mithlesh@...syssoft.com>, Christopher Harrer <charrer@...critech.com> Subject: Re: Staging: sxg: Add support to download the firmware using request_firmware() On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 06:19:55PM -0700, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 18:07 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > Who do we email to add this to? > > Clone git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git, > add your firmware (and update the WHENCE file accordingly), and send me > a pull request. Preferably with a Signed-off-by: from within the company > that owns the firmware in question. Care to document this somewhere in the kernel tree so we know about it? > > And finally, what's wrong with adding new firmware images into the > > firmware/ directory? What is the issue here? > > We're working on _removing_ this crap from the kernel source tree -- not > adding new instances of it. Firmware isn't "crap", it's needed by devices, and I don't see the problem of distributing it within the kernel tree, especially when the license of the firmware is just fine, like these files are. > We have a separate repository in which we're collecting > redistributable firmware images, and the distributions are moving > towards shipping that instead of just the legacy stuff from the kernel > tree. Add any new firmware to that repository instead, as described > above. Are there releases of the firmware tree published and announced anywhere so the distros know to do this? 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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