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From:   Josh Boyer <jwboyer@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 24 Oct 2018 09:44:47 -0400
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Additional firmware files for CA0132 HD-audio codec
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 3:37 AM Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 19:49:23 +0200,
> Connor McAdams wrote:
> >
> > The following changes since commit c6b6265d718d118e28e1ce8f91769aa886b54c94:
> >
> >   Merge tag 'iwlwifi-fw-2018-10-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/linux-firmware (2018-10-08 09:23:53 -0400)
> >
> > are available in the git repository at:
> >
> >   git@github.com:Conmanx360/linux-firmware.git
> >
> > for you to fetch changes up to cd8899323352e772c5989230f35b1c494e0ab196:
> >
> >   linux-firmware: Add new firmware for Creative CA0132 HD-Audio Codec (2018-10-09 14:41:12 -0400)
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > These are additional firmware files for CA0132 based sound cards.
> >
> > Creative has given me permission through email to send these to the
> > linux-firmware repository under the same license as the previous ca0132
> > firmware. I asked my contact if they would sign-off on it, but they said
> > to go ahead and submit it and that if there was any issue to contact
> > them.
> >
> > If you need to contact them, or if there's more info needed, let me know
> > and I can get see what I can do.

I'd really like to see a Sign-off from someone at Creative.  It's not
that I don't trust your word that they agreed to it, but we have
nothing to go back and verify they actually agreed to allow this to be
redistributable, etc.

josh

> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Connor McAdams (1):
> >       linux-firmware: Add new firmware for Creative CA0132 HD-Audio Codec
> >
> >  WHENCE            |   2 ++
> >  ctefx-desktop.bin | Bin 0 -> 655856 bytes
> >  ctefx-r3di.bin    | Bin 0 -> 655816 bytes
> >  3 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 ctefx-desktop.bin
> >  create mode 100644 ctefx-r3di.bin
>
> Please can anyone take a look at this pull request?
>
> It's mandatory for the CA0132-based cards that are now supported
> better in the upstream kernel tree.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Takashi