Bug#808792: firmware-iwlwifi: iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode is missing
Ben Hutchings <ben@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
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