On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 02:17:47PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 03:00:40PM +0200, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Mar 2024 at 13:09, Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Several Qualcomm Bluetooth controllers lack persistent storage for the > > > device address and instead one can be provided by the boot firmware > > > using the 'local-bd-address' devicetree property. > > > > > > The Bluetooth bindings clearly says that the address should be specified > > > in little-endian order, but due to a long-standing bug in the Qualcomm > > > driver which reversed the address some bootloaders have been providing > > > the address in big-endian order instead. > > > > > > The only device out there that should be affected by this is the WCN3991 > > > used in some Chromebooks. To maintain backwards compatibility, mark the > > > current compatible string as deprecated and add a new > > > 'qcom,wcn3991-bt-bdaddr-le' for firmware which conforms with the > > > binding. > > > This compatible doesn't describe new hardware kind. As such, I think, > > the better way would be to continue using qcom,wcn3991-bt compatible > > string + add some kind of qcom,bt-addr-le property. > > No, you can't handle backwards compatibility by *adding* a property. But you could add a property for the not broken case. That's a bit odd, but so is your compatible. > I wanted to avoid doing this, but if we have to support Google's broken > boot firmware for these devices, then this is how it needs to be done. Don't Chromebooks update everything together. So maybe we don't care in this case? Rob
