[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/wf111: remove package
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Aug 26 15:09:33 UTC 2015
Peter,
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 22:28:37 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> > I'm not going to comment on all the points made here, but my stance
> > is: lthough I also hate what the wf111 package does, I don't think
> > it's bad enough to remove it from buildroot. It doesn't hurt the rest
> > of buildroot at all, and it is a useful package for some users. I'd
> > rather get rid of sparc than getting rid of this package.
>
> I'm with Arnout here. While the download/binary blobs issues certainly
> aren't nice (and perhaps we would have had second thoughts when it was
> submitted if we had known about these issues)
From the commit log of the package:
Adds support for the BlueGiga WF111 WiFi driver and the binary utilities
distributed alongside the driver. An account is required to download the
sources from the BlueGiga website, which can be created freely. The
driver is available for armv5, arm7a and i386.
Since it is not possible to automatically retrieve the sources, because
of the required user account needed on the BlueGiga website, an option
is added to let the Buildroot user specify the directory where the
driver tarball was downloaded.
So it was 100% clear when the package was submitted that the tarball
cannot be automatically retrieved, and that creating an account was
needed to download the tarball.
See also the initial package submission:
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2015-January/118194.html
Best regards,
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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