From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gustavo Zacarias Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 08:30:37 -0300 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] linux-firmware: ath9k_htc - use newer firmware In-Reply-To: <1458038864-1872-1-git-send-email-abrodkin@synopsys.com> References: <1458038864-1872-1-git-send-email-abrodkin@synopsys.com> Message-ID: <56E7F25D.503@zacarias.com.ar> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 15/03/16 07:47, Alexey Brodkin wrote: > Existing blobs are of version ath9k-htc 1.3.1, see > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=21a6c3e55df956dd223279627685778268ede70f > > These are as said in the commit are left for compatibility with older > kernels which [older kernels] will look for blobs in the > root of "/lib/firmware". > > But there're newer v1.4 blobs in ath9k_htc folder. > And newer kernels (>=4.4) look first in that new location > "/lib/firmware/ath9k_htc". > > Note that even new kernels will fall back to previous location > if new one doesn't exist. > > Tested with TP-LINK TL-WN722N (has Atheros AR9271 inside). > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin > Cc: Thomas Petazzoni > Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" > Cc: John Keeping > Cc: Matt Weber > Cc: Alex Suykov > Cc: Peter Korsgaard > Cc: Gustavo Zacarias Acked-by: Gustavo Zacarias