From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933194AbdA0MDc (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2017 07:03:32 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:50891 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932504AbdA0MD3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2017 07:03:29 -0500 Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 13:03:22 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Pali =?iso-8859-1?Q?Roh=E1r?= Cc: Arend Van Spriel , Kalle Valo , Ming Lei , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , David Gnedt , Michal Kazior , Daniel Wagner , Tony Lindgren , Sebastian Reichel , Ivaylo Dimitrov , Aaro Koskinen , Grazvydas Ignotas , 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 Message-ID: <20170127120321.GB8512@amd> References: <1482598381-16513-1-git-send-email-pali.rohar@gmail.com> <1482598381-16513-3-git-send-email-pali.rohar@gmail.com> <87tw8lnei3.fsf@codeaurora.org> <20170127094342.GC24223@pali> <20170127101043.GD24223@pali> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qcHopEYAB45HaUaB" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170127101043.GD24223@pali> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --qcHopEYAB45HaUaB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi! > > You are probably saying that on your platform you can not remove > > anything from /lib/firmware, right? I don't see how you come from "it is > > part of firmware package" to "removing is not possible". Trying to > > understand this and it makes no sense. >=20 > It is already in linux distribution packages. If I remove that file from > file system it will be placed there again by package management or it it > will throw error message about system integrity (missing file, etc...). >=20 > Also that file is already in linux-firmware git and so is propagated to > /lib/firmware by anybody who is using linux-firmware. >=20 > > >> Like we discussed earlier, the default nvs file should not be used by > > >> normal users. > > >=20 > > > But already is and we need to deal with this fact. > >=20 > > Why? >=20 > Because everybody has already installed it. >=20 > > Are there other platforms that use the default nvs file and have a > > working wifi. >=20 > I do not know. >=20 > > So your "removing is not possible" would be about > > regression for those? >=20 > Yes, that is possible. >=20 > Also you can use wifi on Nokia N900 with this default file. Yes it is > not recommended and probably has performance problems... but more people > use it for SSH and it is working. Pavel could confirm this. Yes, wifi somehow works on N900. .. depending on userspace and kernel versions. Pavel --=20 (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blo= g.html --qcHopEYAB45HaUaB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAliLNwkACgkQMOfwapXb+vKH8gCgkdSnJsJtKo2pPK6bph+wEtf4 YxMAmgKrAQFt6KQ9BwDPB23NkWOGZpcV =Wc/q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qcHopEYAB45HaUaB--