Bug#620066: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: missing firmware file cbfw.bin for module bfa.ko for Brocade Fibre Channel HBA card

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 02:00:10PM -0400, Calabaza wrote:
> 2011/3/29 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>:
> > I suggest you ask Brocade
> > to send these files to David Woodhouse
> > for inclusion in linux-firmware.
> > That is the main 'upstream' for
> > our firmware packages.
> 
> > Ben.
> 
> ok, the email of David Woodhouse is dwmw2@infradead.org ?
 
Yes.  Quoting from firmware/README.AddingFirmware in the kernel source:

    To submit firmware to that repository, please send either a git binary
    diff or preferably a git pull request to:
          David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

    Your commit should include an update to the WHENCE file clearly
    identifying the licence under which the firmware is available, and
    that it is redistributable. If the licence is long and involved, it's
    permitted to include it in a separate file and refer to it from the
    WHENCE file.

    Ideally, your commit should contain a Signed-Off-By: from someone
    authoritative on the licensing of the firmware in question (i.e. from
    within the company that owns the code).

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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