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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] ath10k: QCA4019 hw1.0: update board-2.bin
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To:     Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@kernel.org>
Cc:     Linux Firmware <linux-firmware@kernel.org>,
        ath10k@lists.infradead.org,
        Linux Wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
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From:   Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
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On 26/02/2022 14:24, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Josh Boyer <jwboyer@kernel.org> writes:
> 
>> On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 2:53 PM Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> syncs linux-firmware.git with the latest releases from Kalle Valo (QCA):
>>> <https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/tree/master/QCA4019/hw1.0>
>>>
>>> Includes the following changes:
>>> 93591ce ath10k-firmware: QCA4019 hw1.0: Add ZTE MF286D specific BDFs
>>> [...]
>>> f305604 ath10k-firmware: QCA4019 hw1.0: Update OpenMesh A62 specific BDFs
>>>
>>> Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
>>
>> Forgive me, but I have to ask.  Kalle, is there a reason you aren't
>> sending these or including a Signed-off-by?
> 
> I have not sent any new pull requests to linux-firmware while we are
> trying to sort out the notice.txt problem discussed in the other thread:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA+5PVA4WEuJDB3OCKfYK-BPaccpVWd9t_au9S7MCEtpy7cdF-A@mail.gmail.com/
> 
> My plan was to send ath10k and ath11k updates once we find a solution
> for the notice files. I'm guessing Christian wanted to get these board
> files to linux-firmware quickly and decided to submit them directly, I
> was not involved with that at all.
> 
Thank you for telling me about the notice.txt issue. No, I wasn't aware
of that happening.

My reason for creating the patches is that OpenWrt (www.openwrt.org)
is moving forward with the next 22.xx release. OpenWrt pulls firmware
and boarddata mostly from linux-firmware.git - so having those
up-to-date in time for the upcoming release is all around a "good thing".

(OpenWrt uses the monthly linux-firmware.git releases, so there's an
extra delay to account for.)

The current situation is: OpenWrt has those board files (as ~40 separate
files) all lined up in:
<https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/tree/master/package/firmware/ipq-wifi>
Once the board-2.bin in linux-firmware.git is updated and a new release is
made, those files can simply be deleted.)

Cheers,
Christian