On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 12:34:03AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 09:39:05AM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote: > > To be clear, I am not asking for their removal, however, I do think a better > > license should be issued for these files. The files were trivially modified > > in 2006. It could be that the code in question is now unused and it is just > > easier to remove them. > > > > Is there anyone you know of that we could approach to determine a proper > > SPDX License for these files? > > The code contains firmware that is downloaded to the device. The proper > thing would be to convert them to separate binary files in the > linux-firmware packages. But given that the driver has seen nothing > but tree wide cleanups since the dawn of git I suspect there is no > maintainer and probably no user left. The best might be to indeed just > remove it and see if anyone screams, in which case we could bring it > back after doing the above. > We should just remove them for now, I have no objection to that at all. Want me to send the patch? thanks, greg k-h
