netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] net: phy: marvell10g: Support firmware loading on 88X3310

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Message-ID: <ZZPhiuyvEepIcbKm@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2024 10:12:26 +0000
From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To: Tobias Waldekranz <tobias@...dekranz.com>
Cc: Marek Behún <kabel@...nel.org>, davem@...emloft.net,
	kuba@...nel.org, andrew@...n.ch, hkallweit1@...il.com,
	robh+dt@...nel.org, krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org,
	conor+dt@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] net: phy: marvell10g: Support firmware
 loading on 88X3310

On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 11:15:41AM +0100, Tobias Waldekranz wrote:
> On tis, dec 19, 2023 at 10:22, Marek Behún <kabel@...nel.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Dec 2023 21:14:39 +0100
> > Tobias Waldekranz <tobias@...dekranz.com> wrote:
> >
> >> +MODULE_FIRMWARE("mrvl/x3310fw.hdr");
> >
> > And do you have permission to publish this firmware into linux-firmware?
> 
> No, I do not.
> 
> > Because when we tried this with Marvell, their lawyer guy said we can't
> > do that...
> 
> I don't even have good enough access to ask the question, much less get
> rejected by Marvell :) I just used that path so that it would line up
> with linux-firmware if Marvell was to publish it in the future.
> 
> Should MODULE_FIRMWARE be avoided for things that are not in
> linux-firmware?

Without the firmware being published, what use is having this code in
mainline kernels?

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