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Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: firmware refresh for BCM43602 PCIE devices

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On 25-09-15 02:00, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 08:45:04PM +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>> A number of end-users reported issues with BCM43602 on the 2015
>> MacBook Pro. It turned out the previously released firmware did
>> not properly support that device [1]. Hence an update of the STA
>> firmware and while at it refresh the AP firmware as well. The
>> latter has been tested using Netgear R8000. The STA firmware has
>> been tested on MacBook Pro.
>>
> 
> Are there version numbers we could update in WHENCE to make this
> easier to track?

For brcmfmac firmware we don't have version numbers in WHENCE. To be
honest it feels a bit redundant as the firmware file itself contains the
version number, ie. by doing 'hexdump -C /firmware/ | tail -30'.

Regards,
Arend

> regards, --jkkm
> 
>> [1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100201
>>
>> Cc: Rafal Milecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Tested-by: Knuth Posern <knuth@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> This patch fixes a couple of issues mentioned in kernel bugzilla
>> #100201 with 2015 MacBook Pro machines using this wifi chipset.
>>
>> The patch applies to master branch of the linux-firmware repository
>> on top of commit f88e5c2e2ff5 ("Merge 'c11384c' of
>> git://people.freedesktop.org/~vivijim/linux-firmware...").
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