From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 09:46:22 -0800 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: Shanmugamkamatchi Balashanmugam CC: David Woodhouse , "linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org" , Luis Rodriguez Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-firmware: Remove ath3k-2.fw Message-ID: <20110203174622.GA1226@tux> References: <1296207208-4465-1-git-send-email-sbalashanmugam@atheros.com> <1296719005.12863.28.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <4D4A60E1.3080000@atheros.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In-Reply-To: <4D4A60E1.3080000@atheros.com> Sender: linux-bluetooth-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 12:01:37AM -0800, Shanmugamkamatchi Balashanmugam wrote: > On 2/3/2011 1:13 PM, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 15:03 +0530, Bala Shanmugam wrote: > >> ath3k-2.fw is obsolete and not use by Atheros chipsets > >> anymore. > > Are you telling me that there is no extant hardware, and no old kernels, > > which would use this? It was added to the linux-firmware tree and > > *never* used? > > > Yes David, no older kernel uses this firmware. > We thought to have new firmware file for newer versions but > our driver patch was not accepted and we decided to > have single firmware for this chipset [ath3k-1.fw]. > To be clear, the patch for upstream to use that firmware was submitted IIRC but never merged upstream... you merged the firmware first. By the time it came time to push it again, I had asked WTF was in it, and asked for the patch to get merged, but it was made clear by our team the APIs never changed so Marcel suggested we just replace the firmware in linux-firmware instead of adding a new firmware and patching the driver. Apologies for any trouble. Luis