linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging/wlan-ng: Convert firmware loading to load binary ihex format

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Message-ID: <20090819181426.GA12827@kroah.com>
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
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