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SubjectRe: [PATCH RESEND] firmware: Update information in linux.git about adding firmware
On 04/13/2015 04:20 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Kyle McMartin joined the linux-firmware maintainers, and we now
> have an alias <linux-firmware@kernel.org> which reaches all of us.
> Include that instead of the individual addresses.
>
> Add some further recommendations that were already included in the
> README in linux-firmware.git added by Xose Vazquez Perez
> <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> ---
> firmware/README.AddingFirmware | 14 ++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/firmware/README.AddingFirmware b/firmware/README.AddingFirmware
> index ea78c3a..bcb5f46 100644
> --- a/firmware/README.AddingFirmware
> +++ b/firmware/README.AddingFirmware
> @@ -21,15 +21,25 @@ been permitted to redistribute under separate cover.
>
> 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>
> - Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> + linux-firmware@kernel.org
> +and also cc: to related mailing lists.
>
> 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.
> +And if it were possible, a changelog of the firmware itself.
>
> 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).
> +
> +
> +WARNING:
> +=======
> +
> +Don't send any "CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT" in your e-mail, patch or
> +request. Otherwise your firmware _will never be accepted_.
> +
> +Maintainers are really busy, so don't expect a prompt reply.
>
>
>

Hi Jonathan,

Could you take this patch?

-thanks-


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