linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] carl9170: Clarify kconfig text

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Message-ID: <c17f2f12-1c94-6b19-c918-0a6a9ee401ca@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 18 Apr 2016 18:47:44 +0200
From:	Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@...il.com>
To:	Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@...glemail.com>,
	Lauri Kasanen <cand@....com>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Firmware Maintainers <linux-firmware@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] carl9170: Clarify kconfig text

Christian Lamparter wrote:

> Sure, but this could be a different patch then. I think Intel devices 
> (iwlwifi, iwlegacy and ipw2x00) have a similar text about "download
> firmware from this device from our homepage here" too. So if we want,
> we can remove them altogether?

linux-firmware.git does not contain firmware for all drivers. _At least_
zd1211rw [1], atmel [2] and ipw2x00 [3] are out of the tree.

[1] http://sf.net/projects/zd1211/files/
[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20121016132320/http://at76c503a.berlios.de/fw_dl.html
[3] http://ipw2100.sf.net/firmware.php http://ipw2200.sf.net/firmware.php