linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND] firmware: Update information in linux.git about adding firmware

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Message-ID: <55312F36.2000601@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 17 Apr 2015 18:05:10 +0200
From:	Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@...il.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	linux-firmware@...nel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] firmware: Update information in linux.git about
 adding firmware

On 04/13/2015 04:20 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Kyle McMartin joined the linux-firmware maintainers, and we now
> have an alias <linux-firmware@...nel.org> which reaches all of us.
> Include that instead of the individual addresses.
> 
> Add some further recommendations that were already included in the
> README in linux-firmware.git added by Xose Vazquez Perez
> <xose.vazquez@...il.com>.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
> ---
>  firmware/README.AddingFirmware | 14 ++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/firmware/README.AddingFirmware b/firmware/README.AddingFirmware
> index ea78c3a..bcb5f46 100644
> --- a/firmware/README.AddingFirmware
> +++ b/firmware/README.AddingFirmware
> @@ -21,15 +21,25 @@ been permitted to redistribute under separate cover.
>  
>  To submit firmware to that repository, please send either a git binary
>  diff or preferably a git pull request to:
> -      David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
> -      Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
> +      linux-firmware@...nel.org
> +and also cc: to related mailing lists.
>  
>  Your commit should include an update to the WHENCE file clearly
>  identifying the licence under which the firmware is available, and
>  that it is redistributable. If the licence is long and involved, it's
>  permitted to include it in a separate file and refer to it from the
>  WHENCE file.
> +And if it were possible, a changelog of the firmware itself.
>  
>  Ideally, your commit should contain a Signed-Off-By: from someone
>  authoritative on the licensing of the firmware in question (i.e. from
>  within the company that owns the code).
> +
> +
> +WARNING:
> +=======
> +
> +Don't send any "CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT" in your e-mail, patch or
> +request. Otherwise your firmware _will never be accepted_.
> +
> +Maintainers are really busy, so don't expect a prompt reply.
> 
> 
> 

Hi Jonathan,

Could you take this patch?

-thanks-
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