Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:59226 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750963Ab1BQVzO (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:55:14 -0500 Received: by fxm20 with SMTP id 20so3095939fxm.19 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:55:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D5D97EB.9020406@lwfinger.net> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:49:31 -0600 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Xose Vazquez Perez CC: Ivo Van Doorn , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, users@rt2x00.serialmonkey.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] rt2x00: Update rt2860/rt2870 firmware References: <4D09081A.3060404@gmail.com> <4D5D7A09.7000203@gmail.com> <4D5D9594.7010904@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D5D9594.7010904@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 02/17/2011 03:39 PM, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > On 02/17/2011 08:43 PM, Ivo Van Doorn wrote: > >> I have already send a patch to update the >> firmwares some time ago already. >> >> If there is another update, feel free to send a new patch >> to the linux-firmware maintainer. > > I did it _ten_ months ago, but no luck. So I asked you to do it. > Again to /dev/null. Thanks anyway. > > next step? Did your proposed change have a good/strong reference to the license file in WHENCE? My experience is that the maintainer drops changes that do not, usually without comment. I also found that "found in hex form in source" did not work the way it did for your previous versions. Only when I provided a license from the vendor did I get anywhere. Is LICENCE.ralink-firmware.txt valid for this new version? Larry