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From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Kalle Valo" <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
	"Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>,
	"Arend Van Spriel" <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>,
	"Ming Lei" <ming.lei@canonical.com>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"David Gnedt" <david.gnedt@davizone.at>,
	"Michal Kazior" <michal.kazior@tieto.com>,
	"Daniel Wagner" <wagi@monom.org>,
	"Sebastian Reichel" <sre@kernel.org>,
	"Ivaylo Dimitrov" <ivo.g.dimitrov.75@gmail.com>,
	"Aaro Koskinen" <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>,
	"Grazvydas Ignotas" <notasas@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] wl1251: Use request_firmware_prefer_user() for loading NVS calibration data
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 09:53:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170130175309.GY7403@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170127194012.GE20571@amd>

* Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> [170127 11:41]:
> On Fri 2017-01-27 17:23:07, Kalle Valo wrote:
> > Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> > > On Friday 27 January 2017 14:26:22 Kalle Valo wrote:
> > >> Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> writes:
> > >> 
> > >> > 2) It was already tested that example NVS data can be used for N900 e.g.
> > >> > for SSH connection. If real correct data are not available it is better
> > >> > to use at least those example (and probably log warning message) so user
> > >> > can connect via SSH and start investigating where is problem.
> > >> 
> > >> I disagree. Allowing default calibration data to be used can be
> > >> unnoticed by user and left her wondering why wifi works so badly.
> > >
> > > So there are only two options:
> > >
> > > 1) Disallow it and so these users will have non-working wifi.
> > >
> > > 2) Allow those data to be used as fallback mechanism.
> > >
> > > And personally I'm against 1) because it will break wifi support for
> > > *all* Nokia N900 devices right now.
> > 
> > All two of them? :)
> 
> Umm. You clearly want a flock of angry penguins at your doorsteps :-).

Well this silly issue of symlinking and renaming nvs files in a standard
Linux distro was also hitting me on various devices with wl12xx/wl18xx
trying to use the same rootfs.

Why don't we just set a custom compatible property for n900 that then
picks up some other nvs file instead of the default?

Regards,

Tony

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-30 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-24 16:52 [PATCH 0/6] wl1251: Fix MAC address for Nokia N900 Pali Rohár
     [not found] ` <1482598381-16513-1-git-send-email-pali.rohar-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2016-12-24 16:52   ` [PATCH 1/6] firmware: Add request_firmware_prefer_user() function Pali Rohár
2016-12-24 16:52   ` [PATCH 2/6] wl1251: Use request_firmware_prefer_user() for loading NVS calibration data Pali Rohár
2016-12-25 20:15     ` Arend Van Spriel
2016-12-25 20:46       ` Pali Rohár
2016-12-26 15:43         ` Pavel Machek
2016-12-26 16:04           ` Pali Rohár
2016-12-26 16:35       ` Pavel Machek
2017-01-03 17:59         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-05-03 19:02           ` Arend Van Spriel
2017-05-04  2:28             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-05-12 20:55               ` Arend Van Spriel
2017-01-27  7:33     ` Kalle Valo
2017-01-27  8:58       ` Arend Van Spriel
2017-01-27  9:43       ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-27 10:05         ` Arend Van Spriel
2017-01-27 10:10           ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-27 10:19             ` Arend Van Spriel
2017-01-27 10:34               ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-27 11:49                 ` Kalle Valo
2017-01-27 11:57                   ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-27 12:26                     ` Kalle Valo
2017-01-27 12:53                       ` Arend Van Spriel
2017-01-27 13:16                         ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-27 13:11                       ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-27 15:23                         ` Kalle Valo
2017-01-27 15:41                           ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-27 19:40                           ` Pavel Machek
2017-01-30 17:53                             ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
2017-01-30 18:03                               ` Pali Rohár
     [not found]                               ` <20170130175309.GY7403-4v6yS6AI5VpBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
2017-01-31  6:35                                 ` Kalle Valo
2017-01-31 15:59                                   ` Tony Lindgren
2017-02-01  8:33                                     ` Pali Rohár
2017-02-01  9:35                                       ` Michal Kazior
2017-01-29 17:10                         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-01-27 12:03             ` Pavel Machek
2016-12-24 16:52   ` [PATCH 3/6] wl1251: Update wl->nvs_len after wl->nvs is valid Pali Rohár
2016-12-24 18:02     ` Pavel Machek
2016-12-24 16:53   ` [PATCH 5/6] wl1251: Parse and use MAC address from supplied NVS data Pali Rohár
2016-12-24 18:14     ` Pavel Machek
2016-12-24 18:40       ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-27  7:54     ` Kalle Valo
2016-12-24 16:52 ` [PATCH 4/6] wl1251: Generate random MAC address only if driver does not have valid Pali Rohár
2016-12-24 18:08   ` Pavel Machek
2016-12-24 18:38     ` Pali Rohár
2016-12-24 16:53 ` [PATCH 6/6] wl1251: Set generated MAC address back to NVS data Pali Rohár
2016-12-24 18:17   ` Pavel Machek
2016-12-24 18:44     ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-27  7:56   ` Kalle Valo
2017-01-27  9:05     ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-27  9:30       ` Kalle Valo
2017-11-09 23:38 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] wl1251: Fix MAC address for Nokia N900 Pali Rohár
2017-11-09 23:38   ` [PATCH v2 1/6] wl1251: Update wl->nvs_len after wl->nvs is valid Pali Rohár
2018-02-27 13:51     ` [v2,1/6] " Kalle Valo
2017-11-09 23:38   ` [PATCH v2 2/6] wl1251: Generate random MAC address only if driver does not have valid Pali Rohár
2017-11-09 23:38   ` [PATCH v2 3/6] wl1251: Parse and use MAC address from supplied NVS data Pali Rohár
2017-11-09 23:38   ` [PATCH v2 4/6] wl1251: Set generated MAC address back to " Pali Rohár
2017-11-09 23:38   ` [PATCH v2 5/6] firmware: Add request_firmware_prefer_user() function Pali Rohár
2017-11-10 20:26     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-11-10 20:28       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-11-10 21:08       ` Pali Rohár
2017-11-10 23:35         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-11-09 23:38   ` [PATCH v2 6/6] wl1251: Use request_firmware_prefer_user() for loading NVS calibration data Pali Rohár
2018-01-02 19:23   ` [PATCH v2 0/6] wl1251: Fix MAC address for Nokia N900 Pali Rohár
2018-01-05  1:45     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-01-27 14:14       ` Pali Rohár
2018-02-19  8:27         ` Kalle Valo
     [not found] <0fd90416-f33c-a6be-14fd-5e964583e9cb@broadcom.com>
2017-05-15 23:13 ` [PATCH 2/6] wl1251: Use request_firmware_prefer_user() for loading NVS calibration data Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-05-16  8:41   ` Arend Van Spriel
2017-05-16 23:57     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-06-23 21:53     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-06-30 21:35       ` Arend van Spriel
2017-08-10 19:43         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-05-17 12:06   ` Johannes Berg
2017-05-17 12:53     ` Pali Rohár
2017-05-17 13:04       ` Johannes Berg
2017-05-17 13:21         ` Pali Rohár
2017-05-17 13:22           ` Johannes Berg
2017-05-18  0:08       ` Bjorn Andersson

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