Return-path: Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.44.28]:42447 "EHLO yx-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751127AbYJUXJO (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:09:14 -0400 Received: by yx-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 8so485877yxm.1 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:09:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <43e72e890810211609t4ed76b3cq76d400d4a7c025e2@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20081022_010918_484504_A62A4CB1) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:09:13 -0700 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: "Marcel Holtmann" Subject: Re: New iwlwifi 3945 uCode available Cc: "Tomas Winkler" , "John W. Linville" , "Johannes Berg" , "reinette chatre" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1224630116.9386.108.camel@californication> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 References: <1224613633.10863.43.camel@rc-desk> <1224624324.28639.9.camel@johannes.berg> <1ba2fa240810211433q2e7a13b2p45cb8d38a74393c9@mail.gmail.com> <1224624899.28639.17.camel@johannes.berg> <20081021213814.GM17268@tuxdriver.com> <1ba2fa240810211453y40739183v84999364c89886ee@mail.gmail.com> <1224627187.9386.103.camel@californication> <1ba2fa240810211523x2327351fxf8c1c54207d7706b@mail.gmail.com> <1224630116.9386.108.camel@californication> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > as long as the firmware is a file on the filesystem, it is the old > userspace. It is simpler to update a firmware file (in this case > installing a new one) then installing additional software, but that > doesn't change anything. > > Our current problem is that our firmware is still not part of the > firmware tree David Woodhouse is maintaining. Then we could link it > together with the kernel tree. And yes, that is license issue, but it is > one that can be solved. What license issue BTW?