Re: [PATCH] linux-firmware: Remove ath3k-2.fw

[Bala Shanmugam <sbalashanmugam@atheros.com>]

On 2/3/2011 11:16 PM, Luis Rodriguez wrote:
> 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 ath3k-2.fw is obsolete and not use by Atheros chipsets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
Hi David,

Please upstream this patch.
Let me know if I need to do anything from my side.

Regards,
Bala.