From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <4D50E420.6010809@atheros.com> Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 12:05:12 +0530 From: Bala Shanmugam MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luis Rodriguez CC: David Woodhouse , "linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-firmware: Remove ath3k-2.fw References: <1296207208-4465-1-git-send-email-sbalashanmugam@atheros.com> <1296719005.12863.28.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <4D4A60E1.3080000@atheros.com> <20110203174622.GA1226@tux> In-Reply-To: <20110203174622.GA1226@tux> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Sender: linux-bluetooth-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 ath3k-2.fw is obsolete and not use by Atheros chipsets 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.