linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.34 (rt2860 regression)

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Date:	Tue, 18 May 2010 21:44:26 +1000
From:	CaT <cat@....com.au>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, bzolnier@...il.com,
	stable@...nel.org, greg@...ah.com, ben@...adent.org.uk
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.34 (rt2860 regression)

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 02:39:36PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So 2.6.34 is out, and the merge window is thus officially open. As usual, 
> I probably won't do any real pulls for a day or two, in the (probably 
> futile) hope that we'll have more people running plain 2.6.34 for a while. 
> But you can certainly start sending me pull requests.
> 
> Go forth and test,

Whilst I realise this is for a staging driver... On 2010/3/4 the firmware
for the rt2860 driver (amongst others) was removed as part of a patch
to get the driver to use request_firmware(). See:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c22202faade08b6b45f14fd86bfb57f79d73464c

The firmware is in the linux-firmware.git repository and has been for a
while (at least I think that's the right firmware):

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/airlied/linux-firmware.git;a=history;f=rt2860.bin;h=778a771716aff389c79fec3b245ed00beba23a67;hb=HEAD

Is there any chance of this making it into 2.6.34.1/35 so that the driver
works again as it once did?

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