On Wed, 2016-04-20 at 20:51 +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > 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 apparently the firmware sometimes isn't 'ready' until *after* the previous major version reaches end of life. If all versions of firmware are either EOL or beta, Intel is effectively disclaiming support for the affected hardware. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity.
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