(fixing quotation, PLEASE don't top post)
Tom Psyborg <[email protected]> writes:
>> On 6 September 2018 at 17:32, Kalle Valo <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Tomislav Požega <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>> > Add firmware v1.4.1 that supports up to 8 virtual APs and up
>> > to 16 (current limit, at least on AR9271) client interfaces.
>> > (1 AP + 15 STA, 4 AP + 12 STA etc)
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Tomislav Požega <[email protected]>
>> > ---
>> > ath9k_htc/htc_7010-1.4.1.fw | Bin 0 -> 72812 bytes
>> > ath9k_htc/htc_9271-1.4.1.fw | Bin 0 -> 51008 bytes
>> > 2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>> > create mode 100644 ath9k_htc/htc_7010-1.4.1.fw
>> > create mode 100644 ath9k_htc/htc_9271-1.4.1.fw
>>
>> Is this is an official release from the open-ath9k-htc-firmware
>> project
>> or just some custom build of yours? I'm asking because I don't see
>> anything in the master branch since January:
>>
>> https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware/commits/master
>>
>> IMHO Adrian Chadd (CCed) should be the one pushing the ath9k_htc
>> firmware image to linux-firmware, unless the maintainer has
>> changed of
>> course.
>
> I was not sure if the fw images from open-ath9k-htc-firmware project
> are still being pulled into linux-firmware tree, so I created this
> build myself to meet the requirements for one of the patches I sent to
> linux-wireless list.
As ath9k_htc firmere is open it's easy to create backdoors etc and this
is why I think that linux-firmware should not take ath9k_htc firmware
binaries just from anyone, only from maintainers of
open-ath9k-htc-firmware project.
> Adrian, can you push the new fw version via official channel?
Adrian, can you help here?
--
Kalle Valo
Every build attempt of the firmware without modifying the code results
in same checksum of the built file. So I guess this should be easy to
verify.