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From: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
To: linville@tuxdriver.com
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] wl12xx: Remove obsolete testmode NVS push command
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:57:14 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1313042234.2407.758.camel@cumari> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1312269858-30434-1-git-send-email-ido@wizery.com>

On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 10:24 +0300, Ido Yariv wrote: 
> The testmode NVS push command is no longer in use. In addition, it has
> several implementation issues that prevent it from working correctly:
> 
> 1. wl1271_tm_cmd_configure relies on wl->chip.id being set. However,
>    since the device was not necessarily booted by the time the function
>    is called, wl->chip.id will be initialized to 0.
> 2. The NVS file is fetched by calling request_firmware() before it is
>    possible to push an NVS file.
> 3. The maximum allowed size of nl binary payloads is not sufficient for
>    pushing NVS files.
> 4. Pushing 128x NVS files will always fail due to a bug in the
>    validation code.
> 5. In case the pushed NVS file is found invalid, the mutex will be kept
>    locked and the nvs member will become a dangling pointer.
> 
> Since this feature is not being used, remove it completely instead of
> fixing it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>

John, could you please take these two patches into 3.1?

The first one is removing an obsolete feature that was badly broken
(causing security risks) and the second one is a power management bug
fix, without which suspend doesn't work properly with the wl12xx driver.

Thanks!

-- 
Cheers,
Luca.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-11  5:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-02  7:24 [PATCH 1/2] wl12xx: Remove obsolete testmode NVS push command Ido Yariv
2011-08-02  7:24 ` [PATCH 2/2] wl12xx: Fix validation of pm_runtime_get_sync return value Ido Yariv
2011-08-11  5:57   ` Luciano Coelho
2011-08-11  5:57 ` Luciano Coelho [this message]

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