On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 10:25 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > This reverts commit d86e64768859fca82c78e52877ceeba04e25d27a. > > For drivers rtl8188ee, rtl8192ce, rtl8192ee, rtl8723ae, and > rtl8821ae, > the Coccinelle script missed the fact that the code changes the > firmware > name. When that happens, the kernel issues a BUG splat because > it is unable to overwrite the old name. Hmm. That seems somewhat problematic, for example if you have multiple devices that use the same driver but need different firmware? Not that I really know what's going on, but changing static variables based on runtime seems like it could cause issues in such cases. johannes
