[resend] linux-firmware: Revert prism54 firmware addition due to licensing

Chase Douglas chase.douglas at canonical.com
Tue Feb 23 17:52:35 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 10:46 -0700, Tim Gardner wrote:
> Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:28:05PM -0500, Chase Douglas wrote:
> >> The following changes since commit e2886b568364400f0c4b776e6b5772f40496d342:
> >>   Tim Gardner (1):
> >>         Ubuntu-1.30
> >>
> >> are available in the git repository at:
> >>
> >>   git://kernel.ubuntu.com/cndougla/linux-firmware.git lucid
> >>
> >> Chase Douglas (1):
> >>       Revert "firmware for prism54 kernel >=2.6.29"
> >>
> >> The firmware is missing a license statement, so these files have been moved to
> >> linux-firmware-nonfree.
> >>
> >>  prism54/isl3877            |  Bin 112128 -> 0 bytes
> >>  prism54/isl3890            |  Bin 93996 -> 0 bytes
> >>  prism54_softmac/BOM        |    4 ----
> >>  prism54_softmac/isl3886pci |  Bin 29036 -> 0 bytes
> >>  prism54_softmac/isl3886usb |  Bin 29500 -> 0 bytes
> >>  prism54_softmac/isl3887usb |  Bin 29736 -> 0 bytes
> >>  6 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >>  delete mode 100644 prism54/isl3877
> >>  delete mode 100644 prism54/isl3890
> >>  delete mode 100644 prism54_softmac/BOM
> >>  delete mode 100644 prism54_softmac/isl3886pci
> >>  delete mode 100644 prism54_softmac/isl3886usb
> >>  delete mode 100644 prism54_softmac/isl3887usb
> > 
> > Is this going to cause a depenancy issue between l-f and l-f-nf ?  I
> > presume at least the new l-f-nf will have to conflict with the versions
> > of l-f which have these files in?
> > 
> > -apw
> > 
> 
> Ah, good catch.

The previous linux-firmware tree put the files
in /lib/firmware/prism54{,_softmac}. The new linux-firmware-nonfree puts
the files in /lib/firmware (which is the correct location). So there's
no file collision between the packages luckily.





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