Re: [NOT FOR MERGE] ath9k: work around key cache corruption

[Sebastian Gottschall <s.gottschall@dd-wrt.com>]

all patches have a unclear license since most patches are not comming 
with any licence declaration ;-)

Am 27.10.2016 um 08:02 schrieb Kalle Valo:
> Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 05:05:14PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
>>> Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc> writes:
>>>
>>>> From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
>>>>
>>>> This patch was crafted long time ago to work around a key cache
>>>> corruption problem on ath9k chipsets.
>>>>
>>>> The workaround consists in periodically triggering a worker that
>>>> uploads all the keys to the HW cache. The worker is triggered also
>>>> when the vif detects 21 undecryptable packets.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This patch is based on top compat-wireless-2015-10-26.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I was asked to release this code to the public and, since it is
>>>> GPL, I am now doing it.
>>> GPL? AFAICS ath9k is under ISC. I'm not sure what you mean with the
>>> sentence above, but it's possible to interpret it so that this patch is
>>> not under ISC license, which is problematic.
>> Honestly, my sentence was just a way to say "it makes sense to release this
>> patch to the public".
> I was suspecting it was like that, I just wasn't sure.
>
>> If it needs to be ISC in order to be merged, then it can be released under ISC.
>>
>> I don't want to enter a legal case :)
> Me neither. But I can't apply patches with unclear license.
>


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