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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/
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