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ath10k: activate user space firmware loading again

Message ID 20170824210641.19595-1-hauke@hauke-m.de (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit c0cc00f250e19c717fc9cdbdb7f55aaa569c7498
Delegated to: Kalle Valo
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Commit Message

Hauke Mehrtens Aug. 24, 2017, 9:06 p.m. UTC
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 <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Cc: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Kalle Valo Aug. 31, 2017, 12:15 p.m. UTC | #1
Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de> 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 <hauke@hauke-m.de>
> Cc: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>

Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks.

c0cc00f250e1 ath10k: activate user space firmware loading again
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c
index 75c5c903c8a6..1ff662d6a703 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@  static const struct firmware *ath10k_fetch_fw_file(struct ath10k *ar,
 		dir = ".";
 
 	snprintf(filename, sizeof(filename), "%s/%s", dir, file);
-	ret = request_firmware_direct(&fw, filename, ar->dev);
+	ret = request_firmware(&fw, filename, ar->dev);
 	ath10k_dbg(ar, ATH10K_DBG_BOOT, "boot fw request '%s': %d\n",
 		   filename, ret);