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	Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
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On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 05:19:11PM -0700, Brian Cavagnolo wrote:

> >> From: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
> >>
> >> Add Helper image, client image (4.1.0.3) and ap image (5.2.6.6)
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
> >
> > NAK, for obvious reasons.
> >
> > Also, spamming thousands of people's inboxes with 500kb firmware
> > patches is generally not a nice thing to do.
> 
> Well, patches containing hundreds of kB of binary firmware do pass
> through this mailing list.

Not through linux-wireless@.


> However, a closer inspection reveals that these were destined for the
> linux-firmware with linux-wireless CC'd.

Since they are patching different things, they shouldn't even be in
the same patch series anyway.