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

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20090414022418.GA17760@suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:24:18 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Darren Salt <linux@...mustbejoking.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix rt28{6,7}0sta to use firmware loader

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 :)

> 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.

When David pulls it into his tree, and does a release, please let me
know and I'll be glad to accept your patch.  Until then, I can't accept
this patch as it would break people's machines that were previously
working.

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/