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Re: wl18xx: wlconf kernel compatibility

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Hi Kalle,

On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> How do I know, which wlconf version is compatible with which kernel
>> version? I have following problem:
>>
>> I have *.INI file for my particular WLAN chip. This file will be used
>> to produce wl18xx-conf.bin. The size of this file will be check during
>> device initialization. Depending on which kernel version is used the
>> size of the required file differs. For example kernel 3.18 requires
>> wl18xx-conf.bin to have 1221 bytes, 4.1 expects 1226 bytes. Recent
>> wlconf (git://git.ti.com/wilink8-wlan/18xx-ti-utils.git) produces 1229
>> bytes files.
>>
>> How should I determine correct wlconf version?
>
> I also complained about something along these lines earlier, this is not
> how upstream drivers are supposed to work. Users should not be forced to
> find correct files from somewhere, instead everything should just work
> out of box.
>
> Can anyone help Yegor to solve his problem? But in the long run wl18xx
> really should manage this better.

I could solve the problem, though for the future it should be clear,
what wlconf version to use.

See my post here:
http://e2e.ti.com/support/wireless_connectivity/f/307/p/426229/1523235#1523235

Yegor
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