From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: "Reizer\, Eyal" <eyalr@ti.com>
Cc: "\,Tony Lindgren" <tony@atomide.com>,
"linux-wireless\@vger.kernel.org"
<linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wlcore: add missing nvs file name info for wilink8
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2017 14:29:32 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y3s5kbc3.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8665E2433BC68541A24DFFCA87B70F5B363E1A3D@DFRE01.ent.ti.com> (Eyal Reizer's message of "Mon, 3 Jul 2017 10:54:43 +0000")
"Reizer, Eyal" <eyalr@ti.com> writes:
> When working with wl18xx the nvs file is used for defining an alternate
> mac address and override the default mac address that is stored inside
> the wl18xx chip.
> update the structure field with the same default nvs file name that has
> been used in the past, otherwise userspace backward compatibility is
> broken when upgrading from older kernels, as the alternate mac address
> would not be read from the nvs that is already present in the file system
> (lib/firmware/ti-connectivity/wl1271-nvs.bin) causing mac address change
> of the wlan interface.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eyal Reizer <eyalr@ti.com>
Should we also cc stable? And a Fixes line would be nice.
--
Kalle Valo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-03 11:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-03 10:54 [PATCH] wlcore: add missing nvs file name info for wilink8 Reizer, Eyal
2017-07-03 11:29 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2017-07-04 8:17 ` Tony Lindgren
2017-07-04 8:46 ` Reizer, Eyal
2017-07-05 8:06 ` Tony Lindgren
2017-07-05 8:28 ` Sebastian Reichel
2017-07-06 6:26 ` Tony Lindgren
2017-07-20 7:38 ` Reizer, Eyal
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