Hauke Mehrtens <[email protected]> wrote: > In commit 9f5bcfe93315 ("ath10k: silence firmware file probing > warnings") the firmware loading was changed from request_firmware() to > request_firmware_direct() to silence some warnings in case it fails. > request_firmware_direct() directly searches in the file system only and > does not send a hotplug event to user space in case it could not find > the firmware directly. > In LEDE we use a user space script to extract the calibration data from > the flash memory which gets triggered by the hotplug event. This way the > firmware gets extracted from some vendor specific partition when the > driver requests this firmware. This mechanism does not work any more > after this change. > > Fixes: 9f5bcfe93315 ("ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings") > Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <[email protected]> > Cc: Michal Kazior <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <[email protected]>
Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks. c0cc00f250e1 ath10k: activate user space firmware loading again -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9920973/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches _______________________________________________ ath10k mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k
