The bes2600 driver is a fork of the upstream cw1200 driver
(drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/, ST-Ericsson, Dmitry Tarnyagin
2010-2011). The fork's file headers have three GPL-compliance issues:
1. NO SPDX-License-Identifier on any of 48 source files (cw1200
mainline has them on all 25). kernel.org-mandated since 2017.
2. Original "Copyright (c) 2010, ST-Ericsson" lines stripped from
all files inherited from cw1200, replaced with
"Copyright (c) 2010, Bestechnic" — factually impossible
(Bestechnic did not author the 2010 work) and a GPL-2.0 §1
attribution-preservation violation.
3. The "GPL version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation"
boilerplate paragraph is redundant alongside SPDX and is the
legacy form modern kernel sources have replaced.
This patch corrects all three for the 48 .c/.h files in bes2600/:
- Adds `// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only` (or `/* ... */`
for headers) as line 1 of every file.
- Restores `Copyright (c) 2010, ST-Ericsson` + `Author: Dmitry
Tarnyagin <dmitry.tarnyagin@lockless.no>` as the FIRST copyright
chain entry on all 22 files derived from cw1200 (bh.{c,h},
debug.{c,h}, fwio.{c,h}, hwio.{c,h}, main.c, pm.{c,h},
queue.{c,h}, scan.{c,h}, sta.{c,h}, txrx.{c,h}, wsm.{c,h}).
- Keeps `Copyright (c) 2022, Bestechnic (Beijing) Co., Ltd.` as
the SECOND chain entry where Bestechnic genuinely contributed.
- Notes "Derived from cw1200_sdio.c" + ST-Ericsson copyright on
bes2600_sdio.c (heavy derivation, not a literal rename).
- Notes "Replaces hwbus.h from cw1200/" + ST-Ericsson copyright
on sbus.h.
- Preserves the prism54/islsm authorship chain on main.c and
bes2600.h (Michael Wu 2006 + Jean-Baptiste Note 2004-2006).
- Drops the GPL-2.0 boilerplate paragraph in favour of SPDX.
No code changes — only file-header comment blocks. Module build is
unaffected (verified by header-only diff scope).
This is a prerequisite for any kernel.org submission attempt. The
existing MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") + MODULE_AUTHOR(Tarnyagin@stericsson.com)
declarations were already present and are unchanged here; the
mismatch between MODULE_AUTHOR and the (since-corrected) per-file
copyrights is now resolved.
The driver implements a mac80211 testmode_cmd operation that dispatches
to a set of vendor commands (GET_TX_POWER_LEVEL, GET_TX_POWER_RANGE,
SET_SNAP_FRAME, TSM_STATS, GET_ROAM_DELAY, GET_STREAM, etc) plus the
BES2600 RF-test path (bes2600_vendor_rf_cmd → firmware
patch_wifi_testMode). The testmode handlers and the .testmode_cmd
binding in struct ieee80211_ops are conditionally compiled under
CONFIG_BES2600_TESTMODE, which previously defaulted to n.
Flip the Makefile default from n to y so wifi_testmode_cmd.o is
included in the build and the .testmode_cmd op is populated. On the
PineTab2 target kernel (linux-pinetab2 6.19.10-danctnix1, built with
CONFIG_NL80211_TESTMODE=y) this exposes the BES2600 RF-test surface
through the standard nl80211 testmode interface ('iw phy0 ...').
This also makes visible two classes of bit-rot that had accumulated
while nobody was building with CONFIG_BES2600_TESTMODE=y:
1. sta.c contains ~41 calls to bes2600_info() / bes2600_err() /
bes2600_warn() / bes2600_dbg() / bes2600_err_with_cond() - a
legacy log-macro family carrying a BES2600_DBG_* subsystem-id
first argument. Neither the macros nor any of the BES2600_DBG_*
constants are defined anywhere in the tree. The same call pattern
appears under #if defined(BES2600_DETECTION_LOGIC) in hwio.c and
under CONFIG_BES2600_ITP in itp.c, both normally disabled.
Add minimal shim macros to bes_log.h that rewire the calls onto
the existing bes_info() / bes_err() / bes_warn() / bes_devel()
family (ignoring the subsystem id). Define BES2600_DBG_SBUS,
BES2600_DBG_DOWNLOAD, BES2600_DBG_ITP and BES2600_DBG_TEST_MODE
as 0 constants for documentation / grep.
2. bes2600_start_stop_tsm(), bes2600_get_tsm_params(), and
bes2600_get_roam_delay() are declared in sta.c with external
linkage but have no prototype in any header. All callers live in
sta.c (inside bes2600_testmode_cmd). With CONFIG_BES2600_TESTMODE
off the compiler never sees them; with it on gcc
-Werror=missing-prototypes breaks the build.
Mark the three functions static. (Keeping them file-local also
matches their actual usage.)
Both changes are strictly scoped to make CONFIG_BES2600_TESTMODE=y
buildable; no behavioural change when the flag is off.
Tested-on: PineTab2 (BES2600WM + RK3566) running linux-pinetab2
6.19.10-danctnix1-1 with CONFIG_NL80211_TESTMODE=y. Module builds
cleanly, nl80211 testmode interface reachable via 'iw phy0 ...' from
userspace.
Signed-off-by: Markus Fritsche <fritsche.markus@gmail.com>
test0r
Julian