On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 11:15:41AM +0100, Tobias Waldekranz wrote:
> On tis, dec 19, 2023 at 10:22, Marek Behún <kabel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Dec 2023 21:14:39 +0100
> > Tobias Waldekranz <tobias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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