On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Larry Finger <[email protected]> wrote: > In https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114151, the OP reports > improved stability and performance for an RT5370 using a newer firmware that > came with the driver CD. The logs show this to be version 0.36, whereas the > version now in linux-firmware is version 0.29. > > I downloaded the firmware from b.k.o. It had very little effect on my > no-name adapter with ID 148f:3070. It still gets ping losses of 10-15%. > > Should this new version be submitted to linux-firmware? Its provenance seems > to be sketchy, but submission would likely be legal.
Version 0.36 can also be found in the vendor tarball on [1] even though it references a different chip ... So, in my opinion this should be safe from a legal point of view. Helmut [1] http://www.mediatek.com/en/downloads1/downloads/mt7612u/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
