Return-path: Received: from mail-iy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:62470 "EHLO mail-iy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753391Ab2DRTJD (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:09:03 -0400 Received: by iagz16 with SMTP id z16so10797787iag.19 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:09:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4F8F114C.7080401@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20120418_210908_152027_06B79CE8) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:09:00 -0500 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christian Lamparter CC: wireless Subject: Re: carl9170 firmware References: <4F8DA785.6040608@lwfinger.net> <201204172035.06023.chunkeey@googlemail.com> <4F8DC439.103@lwfinger.net> <201204182026.49607.chunkeey@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <201204182026.49607.chunkeey@googlemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 04/18/2012 01:26 PM, Christian Lamparter wrote: > On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 09:27:53 PM Larry Finger wrote: >> On 04/17/2012 01:35 PM, Christian Lamparter wrote: >>> On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 07:25:25 PM Larry Finger wrote: >>>> A question regarding adding carl9170-1.fw to the openSUSE firmware package is >>>> being discussed on the oS kernel mailing list; however, I do not see that one >>>> in the linux-firmware git repo. Should it be there? >>> Does the repo take source code releases? [much like the work we do for the >>> kernel driver, or have you ever seen a binary release on this ML :D ]. The >>> files on >>> are just for convenience. >> >> AFAIK, the repo only takes binary files. With the source under GPL2, that should >> not be a problem; however, the fact that there are two versions with the same >> name would be trouble. Adding under that name has the possibility of breaking >> all the systems that use the other version. > I think I would need to read the opensuse ML discussion first to know why this > is a "big" deal suddenly. (do you have a link?) > > On the other hand: I don't like the idea of supporting "old"& "new" firmwares. > Usually they get mixed up and then you end up with "new" reports for > "old" bugs. In fact, p54 users' complain about that alot. If the filename that the driver requests is changed, that should reduce the complaints. I would think that the current setup with two different, incompatible versions having the same name would be trouble. The thread is at http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-kernel/2012-04/msg00040.html. Larry