linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] wifi: Nordic nRF70 series

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Message-ID: <9a657c02-b688-4f2f-bb0b-fd25d19a54be@broadcom.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 10:45:59 +0200
From: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@...adcom.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
 Artur Rojek <artur@...clusive.pl>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
 Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>, Conor Dooley
 <conor+dt@...nel.org>, Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
 Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>
Cc: linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jakub Klama <jakub@...clusive.pl>,
 Wojciech Kloska <wojciech@...clusive.pl>,
 Ulf Axelsson <ulf.axelsson@...dicsemi.no>, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] wifi: Nordic nRF70 series

+ Josh

On 4/25/2025 8:11 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2025-04-22 at 19:59 +0200, Artur Rojek wrote:
>> 1) Nordic gave us permission to upstream the firmware blob [1] required
>>     to use this driver. As that needs to go through separate
>>     linux-firmware repository and is subject to different licensing,
>>     should I try to upstream it in parallel with this series, or does it
>>     need to wait until the kernel driver gets in?
> 
> I have no idea. Chicken and egg, I guess.

It used to be a check by the linux-firmware maintainer if the firmware 
blob is referenced in kernel module info. I assume the main linux tree 
is checked and not linux-next.

Regards,
Arend