From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:34415 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752560Ab0KDUo6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2010 16:44:58 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] mwl8k: add firmware files for 8366 From: Johannes Berg To: Brian Cavagnolo Cc: Lennert Buytenhek , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Nishant Sarmukadam In-Reply-To: References: <1288659351-22313-1-git-send-email-brian@cozybit.com> <20101102082254.GL1733@mail.wantstofly.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:36:33 -0400 Message-ID: <1288884993.3517.1.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 17:19 -0700, Brian Cavagnolo wrote: > Well, patches containing hundreds of kB of binary firmware do pass > through this mailing list. However, a closer inspection reveals that > these were destined for the linux-firmware with linux-wireless CC'd. > My bad. When I resubmit I'll do it that way. Before you do that though, you really really need to fix this patch to not add the firmware to the _kernel_ tree, but to the _firmware_ tree. Including a proper license for them, of course, and not as ihex crap, etc. johannes