Re: [poky] [PATCH] Clearing empty linux firmware packages

Hi Yann,

On 1/29/26 5:00 PM, Yann Cardaillac via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
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> Removing packages:
> - ${PN}-wl1251 as it's already shipped in linux-firmware-wl12xx

NACK. We should backport bfe67c7775fb4a9177c7ca037ac08e93155b5808 and 
757d53f086a4458bc336b1db92c0ad9a5ae6ed70 from OE-Core instead. wl12xx 
has a different license than wl1251 so we really should have the files 
from wl1251 in their own package with the appropriate license.

> - Removing old ${PN}-iwlwifi-3160-* as only the version ${PN}-iwlwifi-3160-17 is now shipped

Does it hurt to keep the ${PN}-iwlwifi-3160-* packages? The issue is if 
a user of a stable release RDEPENDS or IMAGE_INSTALL's it explicitly, 
removing it means they won't be able to build their image anymore.

> - Removing ${PN}-iwlwifi-6000g2b-5 and ${PN}-iwlwifi-6000g2a-5 as they are replaced by versions 6

Ditto.

> - Removing ${PN}-iwlwifi-6050-4 as it's replaced by ${PN}-iwlwifi-6050-5
> 

Ditto.

> Signed-off-by: Yann CARDAILLAC <[email protected]>
> ---
>   .../linux-firmware/linux-firmware_20240909.bb | 56 ++-----------------
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_20240909.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_20240909.bb
> index 30c47d7720..2a0f8049ce 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_20240909.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_20240909.bb

And finally, this recipe is only (as far as I could tell) in Styhead 
which is not maintained anymore. If something needs to be fixed in 
kirkstone, scarthgap, whinlatter or master, then we can discuss about 
doing something about it (except master, all must be non-breaking changes).

Cheers,
Quentin