Christian Lamparter [off-list ref] writes:

On Monday, April 18, 2016 07:42:05 PM Kalle Valo wrote:

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Christian Lamparter [off-list ref] writes:

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On Monday, April 18, 2016 06:45:09 PM Kalle Valo wrote:

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Why even mention anything about a "special firmware" as the firmware is
already available from linux-firmware.git? 

Yes and no. 1.9.6 is in linux-firmware.git. I've tried to add 1.9.9 too
but that failed.
<http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/114639>

Rick's comment makes sense to me, better just to provide the latest
version. No need to unnecessary confuse the users. And if someone really
wants to use an older version that she can retrieve it from the git
history.

Part of the fun here is that firmware is GPLv2. The linux-firmware.git has
to point to or add the firmware source to their tree. They have added every
single source file to it.... instead of "packaging" it in a tar.bz2/gz/xz
like you normally do for release sources.

If you want to read more about it:
<http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg101868.html>

Yeah, that's more work. I get that. But I'm still not understanding
what's the actual problem which prevents us from updating carl9170
firmware in linux-firmware.

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Kalle Valo