Bjorn Andersson <[email protected]> wrote: > The introduction of 768ec4c012ac ("ath10k: update HOST capability QMI > message") served the purpose of supporting the new and extended HOST > capability QMI message. > > But while the new message adds a slew of optional members it changes the > data type of the "daemon_support" member, which means that older > versions of the firmware will fail to decode the incoming request > message. > > There is no way to detect this breakage from Linux and there's no way to > recover from sending the wrong message (i.e. we can't just try one > format and then fallback to the other), so a quirk is introduced in > DeviceTree to indicate to the driver that the firmware requires the 8bit > version of this message. > > Cc: [email protected] > Fixes: 768ec4c012ac ("ath10k: update HOST capability qmi message") > Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <[email protected]> > Acked-by: Rob Herring <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <[email protected]>
Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks. 7165ef890a4c ath10k: Fix HOST capability QMI incompatibility -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11058005/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
