[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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