Bug#810672: firmware-free should include the ath9k_htc firmware binaries
Package: firmware-free
Version: 3.4
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
According to the upstream commit[1] ath9k_htc version 1.4.0 is free
software (and the future versions will be free software as well,
obviously).
Please add it to this package (and remove from firmware-atheros).
There's one important thing to consider though: location of the
firmware files.
If you add the binaries just as they're located in linux-firmware they
will be seen and used only by the kernel versions that include [2]. If
you copy them to the old place then the older kernels will work with
1.4.0 too (it's backwards-compatible to 1.3.0). Please see [2] for
more rationale and details regarding this.
The maintainer of the open ath9k_htc firmware is in Cc.
[1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=3f3aa3a12d5e5d34bda87a691cf7176baef95bf3
[2] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e904cf6fe23022cde4e0ea9d41601411a315a3dc
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