From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 13:15:01 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] linux-firmware: ath9k_htc - use newer firmware In-Reply-To: <1458038864-1872-1-git-send-email-abrodkin@synopsys.com> (Alexey Brodkin's message of "Tue, 15 Mar 2016 13:47:44 +0300") References: <1458038864-1872-1-git-send-email-abrodkin@synopsys.com> Message-ID: <87shzsaqey.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Alexey" == Alexey Brodkin writes: > Existing blobs are of version ath9k-htc 1.3.1, see > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=21a6c3e55df956dd223279627685778268ede70f > These are as said in the commit are left for compatibility with older > kernels which [older kernels] will look for blobs in the > root of "/lib/firmware". > But there're newer v1.4 blobs in ath9k_htc folder. > And newer kernels (>=4.4) look first in that new location > "/lib/firmware/ath9k_htc". > Note that even new kernels will fall back to previous location > if new one doesn't exist. > Tested with TP-LINK TL-WN722N (has Atheros AR9271 inside). Committed, thanks. -- Venlig hilsen, Peter Korsgaard