On Fri 2017-01-27 17:23:07, Kalle Valo wrote: > Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Friday 27 January 2017 14:26:22 Kalle Valo wrote: > >> Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> > >> > 2) It was already tested that example NVS data can be used for N900 e.g. > >> > for SSH connection. If real correct data are not available it is better > >> > to use at least those example (and probably log warning message) so user > >> > can connect via SSH and start investigating where is problem. > >> > >> I disagree. Allowing default calibration data to be used can be > >> unnoticed by user and left her wondering why wifi works so badly. > > > > So there are only two options: > > > > 1) Disallow it and so these users will have non-working wifi. > > > > 2) Allow those data to be used as fallback mechanism. > > > > And personally I'm against 1) because it will break wifi support for > > *all* Nokia N900 devices right now. > > All two of them? :) Umm. You clearly want a flock of angry penguins at your doorsteps :-). > But not working is exactly my point, if correct calibration data is not > available wifi should not work. And it's not only about functionality > problems, there's also the regulatory aspect. If you break existing configuration that's called "regression". > >> > 3) If we do rename *now* we will totally break wifi support on Nokia > >> > N900. > >> > >> Then the distro should fix that when updating the linux-firmware > >> packages. Can you provide details about the setup, what distro etc? > > > > Debian stable, Ubuntu LTSs 14.04, 16.04. > > You can run these out of box on N900? Debian stable does. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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