linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ti-connectivity: add wl1251 firmware and license

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Date:	Wed, 25 Sep 2013 08:59:43 -0500
From:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
To:	Luca Coelho <luca@...lho.fi>
CC:	<balbi@...com>, <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ti-connectivity: add wl1251 firmware and license

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 04:42:15PM +0300, Luca Coelho wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 08:23 -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 02:07:58PM +0300, Luca Coelho wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 14:04 +0300, Luca Coelho wrote:
> > > > When sending big binary blobs, it's generally better to send pull
> > > > requests instead of patches.  If you add the -p option when calling git
> > > > pull-request, the text will include all the readable parts but will omit
> > > > the binary stuff.
> > > > 
> > > > Thank you very much for following up on this!
> > > 
> > > Ah, and I forgot to say that you should update the WHENCE file
> > > accordingly too.  Check the wl12xx and wl18xx drivers for examples.
> > 
> > I'll send a pull request, but how about this ? I don't think we can
> > change the license. It seems like the other firmwares are using the
> > older license, I'd argue those should be changed to the new one, but
> > that's another discussion.
> 
> Cool, in general it looks good!
> 
> Though it would be nice to know if the same "new" license could be used
> for all the firmwares to avoid almost identical licenses.

well, i'm not a lawyer :-s

> > diff --git a/WHENCE b/WHENCE
> > index e66fea5..4e9e2ed 100644
> > --- a/WHENCE
> > +++ b/WHENCE
> > @@ -1705,6 +1705,19 @@ Licence: Redistributable. See LICENCE.tda7706-firmware.txt for details.
> >  
> >  --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >  
> > +Driver: wl1251 - Texas Instruments 802.11 WLAN driver for WiLink4 chips
> > +
> > +File: ti-connectivity/wl1251-fw.bin
> > +File: ti-connectivity/wl1251-nvs.bin
> 
> Don't you have the firmware version number to add here with "Version:"
> tags like the other ones? I think you can easily find the version by
> running strings on the binary and grepping for "Rev" (at least with the
> newer WiLinks, this works).

Done :-) thanks for the tip.

> > +Licence: See LICENCE.wl1251 for details.
> > +
> > +The driver expects to find the firmwares under a ti-connectivity subdirectory.
> > +So if your system looks for firmwares in /lib/firmware, the firmwares for
> > +wl12xx chips must be located in /lib/firmware/ti-connectivity/.
> 
> It's a bit stupid that this was never changed in wl1251, but it still
> expects the driver in the "root" firmwares directory (ie.
> in /lib/firmware/wl1251-fw.bin, not
> in /lib/firmware/ti-connectivity/wl1251-fw.bin).  Maybe now is the right
> time to change the driver appropriately to keep consistency? ;)

alright, will do...

-- 
balbi

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