Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In commit 9f5bcfe93315 ("ath10k: silence firmware file probing
> warnings") the firmware loading was changed from request_firmware() to
> request_firmware_direct() to silence some warnings in case it fails.
> request_firmware_direct() directly searches in the file system only and
> does not send a hotplug event to user space in case it could not find
> the firmware directly.
> In LEDE we use a user space script to extract the calibration data from
> the flash memory which gets triggered by the hotplug event. This way the
> firmware gets extracted from some vendor specific partition when the
> driver requests this firmware. This mechanism does not work any more
> after this change.
>
> Fixes: 9f5bcfe93315 ("ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings")
> Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks.
c0cc00f250e1 ath10k: activate user space firmware loading again
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