Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes: > Our upstream is linux-firmware.git, not a hundred vendor web sites. > Frankly I'm quite sick of the iwlwifi maintainers thinking their > firmware is special and should be distributed differently from every.
Huh? I always though they sent a pull request whenever they felt a new update was "ready". Like this: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/149963 But I'm not sure there has been a pull request for the 7260-17.ucode yet? It's going to be the last revision for that hardware, so they might want to get it "right" first. Nothing wrong about that AFAICS. Or the fact that the driver has support for a revision which isn't yet in the official repo. The driver works fine with the 7260-16.ucode too. I don't see neither the website, or their firmware repo, as any attmept to distribute firmware differently. It's merely a service to users wanting to beta test early firmware. Personally I like having that choice. But Debian should definitely not start packaging any of the firmware revisions which aren't in linux-firmware.git. Bjørn
