On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> From: Prameela Rani Garnepudi <prameela.j04cs@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> The older firmware loading method has been deprecated and not in use >> for any chipets. New method is introduced which works based on soft >> boot loader. In this method, complete RAM image and FLASH image are >> present in the flash. Before loading the functional firmware, host >> issues boot loader commands to verify whether firmware to load is >> different from the current functional firmware. If not, firmware >> upgrade progresses and boot loader will switch to the new functional >> firmware. >> >> "rs9113_wlan_qspi.rps" is the firmware filename used in this patch. > > I don't know if you saw the discussion with the wil6210 firmware, but > the linux-firmware maintainers prefer to have a subdirectory for > firmware files. I'm planning to apply this series now, but you can send > a followup patch ASAP which changes the rsi driver to use a subdirectory > for the firmware files? I have just sent a follow up patch. > Normally these kind of breaks in user space interface are not allowed, > and instead the requirement is that the driver has a transition period > from the old firmware interface to the new one. But I'm making an > exception here as, to my knowledge, the upstream rsi driver is not that > widely used and I want to get the driver development going on again. > Right. Driver is not currently much used. Thanks for accepting the changes. Regards, Amitkumar Karwar
