On Wed, 24 Aug 2016, Khem Raj [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Aug 24, 2016, at 5:22 AM, Ioan-Adrian Ratiu [off-list ref] wrote:

carl9170 is an atheros-based firmware, the succesor of ar9170 which is
deprecated and its driver (ar9170) was removed from the kernel tree.
carl9170 comes both as a binary blob and also with free sources; the
sources are deleted in linux-firmware.bb to avoid depeding on bash/etc.

Package the carl9170 binary firmware separately because it is needed
by various usb dongles and installing whole linux-firmware is overkill.

while you are at it. Can you also scrutinize the license needs for this firmware ?
should it require packaging a license file explicitly into rootfs or some such

The carl9170 firmware license is GPLv2, sources are also included in the
linux-firmware tree besides the binary. I don't think we need to do
anything special for it.

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Also we should keep ar9170 as is because OOT drivers might still use it.

Signed-off-by: Ioan-Adrian Ratiu <redacted>
---
meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_git.bb | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_git.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_git.bb
index 948dfa8..1657445 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_git.bb

@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-ralink-license ${PN}-ralink \
             ${PN}-vt6656-license ${PN}-vt6656 \
             ${PN}-rtl-license ${PN}-rtl8192cu ${PN}-rtl8192ce ${PN}-rtl8192su \
             ${PN}-broadcom-license ${PN}-bcm4329 ${PN}-bcm4330 ${PN}-bcm4334 ${PN}-bcm43340 ${PN}-bcm4339 ${PN}-bcm4354 \
-             ${PN}-atheros-license ${PN}-ar9170 ${PN}-ath6k ${PN}-ath9k \
+             ${PN}-atheros-license ${PN}-ar9170 ${PN}-carl9170 ${PN}-ath6k ${PN}-ath9k \
             ${PN}-ar3k-license  ${PN}-ar3k  ${PN}-ath10k-license  ${PN}-ath10k  \
             \
             ${PN}-iwlwifi-license ${PN}-iwlwifi \

@@ -255,6 +255,9 @@ FILES_${PN}-atheros-license = "/lib/firmware/LICENCE.atheros_firmware"

FILES_${PN}-ar9170 = " \
  /lib/firmware/ar9170*.fw \
"
+FILES_${PN}-carl9170 = " \
+  /lib/firmware/carl9170*.fw \
+"
FILES_${PN}-ath6k = " \
  /lib/firmware/ath6k \
"

@@ -266,6 +269,7 @@ FILES_${PN}-ath9k = " \

"

RDEPENDS_${PN}-ar9170 += "${PN}-atheros-license"
+RDEPENDS_${PN}-carl9170 += "${PN}-atheros-license"
RDEPENDS_${PN}-ath6k += "${PN}-atheros-license"
RDEPENDS_${PN}-ath9k += "${PN}-atheros-license"

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2.9.3

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