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Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] wifi: Nordic nRF70 series

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On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 4:46 AM Arend van Spriel
<arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> + Josh
>
> On 4/25/2025 8:11 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Tue, 2025-04-22 at 19:59 +0200, Artur Rojek wrote:
> >> 1) Nordic gave us permission to upstream the firmware blob [1] required
> >>     to use this driver. As that needs to go through separate
> >>     linux-firmware repository and is subject to different licensing,
> >>     should I try to upstream it in parallel with this series, or does it
> >>     need to wait until the kernel driver gets in?
> >
> > I have no idea. Chicken and egg, I guess.

Parallel is fine.

> It used to be a check by the linux-firmware maintainer if the firmware
> blob is referenced in kernel module info. I assume the main linux tree
> is checked and not linux-next.

Eh.  We check for net-new firmware just to make sure we aren't growing
the repo for something that will never be used by an in-tree driver,
but if the driver is in linux-next that's good enough.

josh





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