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rtlwifi: Add firmware for rtl8821ae

PATCH In review Greg Kroah-Hartman 3 participants 4 messages Jan 23, 2014 – Jan 27, 2014

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PATCH 1/1 rtlwifi: Add firmware for rtl8821ae

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

This firmware is for a driver for the Realtek 8821AE PCI WIFI device. It came from a tarball from Realtek named wifi_driver_8821ae_0018.1129.2013.tar.gz and is allowed to be distributed under the LICENCE.rtlwifi_firmware.txt license.

Cc Larry Finger <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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 WHENCE                  |   9 +++++++++
 rtlwifi/rtl8821aefw.bin | Bin 0 -> 29198 bytes
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 rtlwifi/rtl8821aefw.bin
WHENCE +9 -0
index 00767b179a68..16ab53e2ba75 100644
@@ -1962,6 +1962,15 @@ Licence: Redistributable. See LICENCE.rtlwifi_firmware.txt for details.
 
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+Driver: rtl8821ae - Realtek 802.11n WLAN driver for RTL8821AE
+
+Info: Taken from Realtek version wifi_driver_8821ae_0018.1129.2013.tar.gz
+File: rtlwifi/rtl8821ae.bin
+
+Licence: Redistributable. See LICENCE.rtlwifi_firmware.txt for details.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 Driver: r8169 - RealTek 8169/8168/8101 ethernet driver.
 
 File: rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw
rtlwifi/rtl8821aefw.bin new file binary +0 -0
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a8638976db23ecd0dddd618aad93e73108313ed6
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1.8.5.1.163.gd7aced9
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Quoted 21 lines · Greg Kroah-Hartman

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

This firmware is for a driver for the Realtek 8821AE PCI WIFI device. It came from a tarball from Realtek named wifi_driver_8821ae_0018.1129.2013.tar.gz and is allowed to be distributed under the LICENCE.rtlwifi_firmware.txt license.

Cc Larry Finger <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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  WHENCE                  |   9 +++++++++
  rtlwifi/rtl8821aefw.bin | Bin 0 -> 29198 bytes
  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

create mode 100644 rtlwifi/rtl8821aefw.bin

WHENCE +0 -0
index 00767b179a68..16ab53e2ba75 100644
@@ -1962,6 +1962,15 @@ Licence: Redistributable. See LICENCE.rtlwifi_firmware.txt for details.

WHENCE Licence: Redistributable. See LICENCE.rtlwifi_firmware.txt for details. · line 1972

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WHENCE +8 -0
  --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+Driver: rtl8821ae - Realtek 802.11n WLAN driver for RTL8821AE
+
+Info: Taken from Realtek version wifi_driver_8821ae_0018.1129.2013.tar.gz
+File: rtlwifi/rtl8821ae.bin
+
+Licence: Redistributable. See LICENCE.rtlwifi_firmware.txt for details.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Acked-by Larry Finger <[email protected]>

Thanks for submitting this.

Larry

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Quoted 7 lines · Greg Kroah-Hartman

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

This firmware is for a driver for the Realtek 8821AE PCI WIFI device. It came from a tarball from Realtek named wifi_driver_8821ae_0018.1129.2013.tar.gz and is allowed to be distributed under the LICENCE.rtlwifi_firmware.txt license.

Quoted 7 lines
Cc Larry Finger <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 WHENCE                  |   9 +++++++++
 rtlwifi/rtl8821aefw.bin | Bin 0 -> 29198 bytes
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 rtlwifi/rtl8821aefw.bin

Applid, but:

WHENCE Licence: Redistributable. See LICENCE.rtlwifi_firmware.txt for details. · line 1968

Quoted 12 lines
WHENCE +4 -0
index 00767b179a68..16ab53e2ba75 100644
@@ -1962,6 +1962,15 @@ Licence: Redistributable. See LICENCE.rtlwifi_firmware.txt for details.
 
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+Driver: rtl8821ae - Realtek 802.11n WLAN driver for RTL8821AE
+
+Info: Taken from Realtek version wifi_driver_8821ae_0018.1129.2013.tar.gz
+File: rtlwifi/rtl8821ae.bin

[...]

This didn't match the actual filename. I fixed it up this time, but please take care to make this match. (Really I should script a check for this.)

Ben.

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Quoted 32 lines · Ben Hutchings
Quoted 7 lines · Greg Kroah-Hartman

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

This firmware is for a driver for the Realtek 8821AE PCI WIFI device. It came from a tarball from Realtek named wifi_driver_8821ae_0018.1129.2013.tar.gz and is allowed to be distributed under the LICENCE.rtlwifi_firmware.txt license.

Quoted 7 lines
Cc Larry Finger <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 WHENCE                  |   9 +++++++++
 rtlwifi/rtl8821aefw.bin | Bin 0 -> 29198 bytes
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 rtlwifi/rtl8821aefw.bin

Applid, but:

Quoted 12 lines
WHENCE +4 -0
index 00767b179a68..16ab53e2ba75 100644
@@ -1962,6 +1962,15 @@ Licence: Redistributable. See LICENCE.rtlwifi_firmware.txt for details.
 
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+Driver: rtl8821ae - Realtek 802.11n WLAN driver for RTL8821AE
+
+Info: Taken from Realtek version wifi_driver_8821ae_0018.1129.2013.tar.gz
+File: rtlwifi/rtl8821ae.bin

[...]

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This didn't match the actual filename. I fixed it up this time, but please take care to make this match. (Really I should script a check for this.)

Ah, sorry about that, I did it by hand, thanks for fixing it.

greg k-h