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diff --git a/firmware/README.AddingFirmware b/firmware/README.AddingFirmware deleted file mode 100644 index bcb5f46aff83..000000000000 --- a/firmware/README.AddingFirmware +++ /dev/null @@ -1,45 +0,0 @@ - - DO NOT ADD FIRMWARE TO THIS DIRECTORY. - ====================================== - -This directory is only here to contain firmware images extracted from old -device drivers which predate the common use of request_firmware(). - -As we update those drivers to use request_firmware() and keep a clean -separation between code and firmware, we put the extracted firmware -here. - -This directory is _NOT_ for adding arbitrary new firmware images. The -place to add those is the separate linux-firmware repository: - - git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git - -That repository contains all these firmware images which have been -extracted from older drivers, as well various new firmware images which -we were never permitted to include in a GPL'd work, but which we _have_ -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: - 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. |