On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 08:14:23AM +0530, Aditya Shankar wrote: > On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 19:35:46 +0200 > Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 10:11:43PM +0530, Aditya Shankar wrote: > > > Change the config packet format used in handle_set_wfi_drv_handler() > > > to align the host driver with the new format used in the wilc firmware. > > > > So does this break devices with "old" firmware? > > > > Where is the "new" firmware? What is enforcing the usage only of new > > firmware? > > > > thanks, > > > > greg k-h > > Yes, this new change would break devices with firmware older than ver > 14.2(released on our vendor tree in March 2016). The older firmware in the > linux-firmware repository is close to 2 years old and not being used with the > staging driver even before this change was submitted. Developers picked up > the firmware mostly from one of our vendor trees on github. > > To resolve this confusion about firmware location, I submitted a patch to > linux-firmware to make the latest firmware available through this channel. > Below are the details. The driver currently does not enforce usage of new > firmware but would fail to properly configure the older firmware.
Please put that information in the changelog text for the next version of this patch that you submit. thanks, greg k-h
