linux-kernel - Re: linux-firmware tree vs. linux-firmware-from-kernel tree

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Message-ID: <1277286978.29898.6.camel@localhost>
Date:	Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:56:18 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Thomas Bächler <thomas@...hlinux.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-firmware tree vs. linux-firmware-from-kernel tree

On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 10:52 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Hello David,
> 
> After switching from 'make firmware_install' to using the firmware files
> from the linux-firmware tree, I received a bug report about missing
> firmware files. While investigating, I noticed that the following
> commits are in linux-firmware-from-kernel, but not in linux-firmware:
> 
> Ken Kawasaki (1):
>       pcnet_cs: add cis of KTI PE520 pcmcia network card
> 
> Michael Chan (2):
>       bnx2: Update firmwares and update version to 2.0.8.
>       bnx2: Update 5709 MIPS firmware and version to 2.0.15.
> 
> Vladislav Zolotarov (1):
>       bnx2x: Use firmware 5.2.13
> 
> Is there a specific reason why they are missing? Can you merge these
> commits into linux-firmware (I did it locally and it went fine, apart
> from a minor conflict in the WHENCE file).

Yeah, it needs a manual merge, which I don't do very often -- partly
because I don't expect us to be adding _new_ non-GPL firmware to the
kernel tree. That's just insane.

-- 
dwmw2

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