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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] mwifiex: pcie: extract wifi part from combo firmware during function level reset
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Xinming Hu <huxinming820@gmail.com> writes:

> From: Xinming Hu <huxm@marvell.com>
>
> A seprate wifi-only firmware was download during pcie function level reset.
> It is in fact the tail part of wifi/bt combo firmware. Per Brian's and
> Dmitry's suggestion, this patch extract the wifi part from combo firmware.
>
> After that, we can discard the redudant image in linux-firmware repo.

If you mean with discarding removing the actual image from
linux-firmware, then you cannot do that. The image is still needed so
that linux-firmware works with older kernels.

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Kalle Valo