Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 22:10:16 +0800
From: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
        sw@simonwunderlich.de, Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Subject: Re: [NOT FOR MERGE] ath9k: work around key cache corruption
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On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 05:05:14PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc> writes:
>=20
> > From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
> >
> > This patch was crafted long time ago to work around a key cache
> > corruption problem on ath9k chipsets.
> >
> > The workaround consists in periodically triggering a worker that
> > uploads all the keys to the HW cache. The worker is triggered also
> > when the vif detects 21 undecryptable packets.
> >
> >
> > This patch is based on top compat-wireless-2015-10-26.
> >
> >
> > I was asked to release this code to the public and, since it is
> > GPL, I am now doing it.
>=20
> GPL? AFAICS ath9k is under ISC. I'm not sure what you mean with the
> sentence above, but it's possible to interpret it so that this patch is
> not under ISC license, which is problematic.

Honestly, my sentence was just a way to say "it makes sense to release this
patch to the public".

If it needs to be ISC in order to be merged, then it can be released under =
ISC.

I don't want to enter a legal case :) I just to make the patch public

Cheers,

--=20
Antonio Quartulli

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