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Re: [v2,1/3] mwifiex: firmware download enhancements

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> From: chunfan chen <jeffc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Same chip is being used by WLAN as well as bluetooth
> drivers. Each driver needs to check during initialisation
> if firmware is already active or it needs to be freshly
> downloaded. If one driver has started downloading the
> firmware, other finds the winner flag as false.
> 
> mwifiex_check_fw_status() checks firmware status and also
> check if WLAN is the winner for firmware downloading.
> 
> Once we detect that other interface is downloading
> the firmware, we call this routine again with max
> poll count to wait until firmware is ready.
> 
> This patch splits the routine to avoid checking
> winner status unnecessarily multiple times and ensures
> that correct messages are displayed to user.
> 
> Firmware status poll count is also increased to 150.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chunfan Chen <jeffc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, 3 patches applied to wireless-drivers-next.git:

2fd5c6ed0b4f mwifiex: firmware download enhancements
dc386ce76ded mwifiex: fix IBSS data path issue.
17934b6a32b2 mwifiex: add debugfs file to read chip information

Kalle Valo
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