[LUCID][linux-firmware] Please pull rt2870.bin reversion

[Chase Douglas]

On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 02:34 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 13:48 -0400, Chase Douglas wrote:
> > Tim,
> > 
> > The 1.34.1 update pushed to -proposed modified rt2870.bin as part of an
> > upstream commit that added in rt3070.bin and rt3071.bin. No bug reports
> > have been filed to have the rt2870.bin firmware file updated, so, in the
> > interest of reducing regression potential, the file has been reverted to
> > the previous version. Please review and upload to -proposed again.
> [...]
> 
> This is just wrong.  No upstream version of Linux before 2.6.34 uses
> rt2870.bin.  The commit you're reverting updated it to match the version
> previously embedded in the rt2870sta driver, which I removed from the
> driver in 2.6.34.

Ok, it does seem that the rt2870 driver we ship as part of 10.04 doesn't
use the rt2870.bin firmware file. However, it's possible that people are
using the firmware with a self-compiled driver or maybe through our
linux-backports-modules package, which has wireless drivers from 2.6.34.
If there's a chance people are using it without issue, then we should
consider not updating it until an issue arises. If 10.04 weren't already
released this would be a different issue, and in Maverick we have pulled
in the updated rt2870.bin firmware file.

-- Chase