[PULL] ath11k firmware 20211223

[Takashi Iwai]

On Fri, 04 Mar 2022 17:14:30 +0100,
Jouni Malinen wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 08:04:26AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 12:50 PM Jouni Malinen <j at w1.fi> wrote:
> > > Would the following in WHENCE work for you?
> > >
> > > Driver: ath11k - Qualcomm Technologies 802.11ax chipset support
> > >
> > > File: ath11k/IPQ6018/hw1.0/board-2.bin
> > > ...
> > > Version: WLAN.HK.2.1.0.1-01238-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-2
> > > Notice: ath11k/IPQ6018/hw1.0/Notice.txt
> > 
> > We'd have to teach copy-firmware.sh what to do with a "Notice:" key.
> > Is there a reason "File:" wouldn't work?  The intention is to install
> > the notices alongside the binaries, so that would accomplish it.
> 
> Yeah, that sounds reasonable to me. From copying/installing/distribution
> view point, these can really be handled in the exact same way as the
> actual firmware binaries in practice.
> 
> > > In other words, there would be only a single "License:" line and one
> > > "Notice:" line for each firmware version? The license itself (i.e.,
> > > LICENSE.QualcommAtheros_ath10k) is same for all the versions while the
> > > set of notices (i.e., those notice.txt files) can be different based on
> > > what is included in the particular build.
> > 
> > Yes, that would help.  Would you be able to adjust the existing
> > entries for ath firmware in the same way?
> 
> Yes, I'll work with Kalle to update the existing ath* WLAN cases.
> 
> > > > > I'm still working on your other comment about notice.txt, will get back
> > > > > on that later.
> > >
> > > This part about clearly identifying the files should be clear now, but
> > > it would be good to resolve that part about the notice.txt files in
> > > general before sending out an updated pull request.
> > 
> > Given these were merged in the past, perhaps I'm being overly
> > pedantic.  If we can mark them as Files or Notices instead of
> > Licenses, I won't hold it up.  It leaves me slightly confused why
> > attribution files need to reference agreements with Qualcomm, splatter
> > Confidential and Proprietary throughout the file, and reference
> > COPYING and README in reference to GPLv2 when the BSD license was
> > clearly chosen.  Perhaps that could be cleaned up in the future.
> 
> Thanks. We'll remove most of the unnecessary information from the new
> notice.txt files and that should get rid of many of the potentially
> confusing parts. If that cleanup leaves something confusing in place,
> we are open to cleaning these up further in followup patches, but it
> would be nice to be able to get the updated versions into
> linux-firmware.git without much more additional delay and yes, this
> would be with the File: instead of Licence: entries for the notice.txt
> files.

The problem of "File:" is that it's more or less intended to be
installed as the firmware files themselves, i.e. they are installed in
/lib/firmware/* that can be loaded to the kernel.  Putting such a
random (document) file there makes me a bit nervous.

We may introduce another tag to list up misc document files
(e.g. "Doc:" or whatever)?  Distros can pick up them and put to the
appropriate places in the package, too.


thanks,

Takashi