Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752635AbcDRRLD (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2016 13:11:03 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f67.google.com ([74.125.82.67]:35267 "EHLO mail-wm0-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751420AbcDRRLB (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2016 13:11:01 -0400 From: Christian Lamparter To: Xose Vazquez Perez Cc: Lauri Kasanen , Kalle Valo , LKML , linux-wireless , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Linux Firmware Maintainers , sgruszka@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] carl9170: Clarify kconfig text Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 19:10:57 +0200 Message-ID: <5517762.PotoMG0SZb@debian64> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.6.0-rc3-wt+; KDE/4.14.14; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 915 Lines: 19 On Monday, April 18, 2016 06:47:44 PM Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > 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. Yeah, don't forget p54. It needs out-of-tree firmwares as well. But what about iwlegacy? Isn't that another candidate that would fit both requirements (no recent firmware update, firmware in linux-firmware.git) ? > [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