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Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: support STA info struct v7

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On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 at 22:21, Dan Haab <riproute@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The newest firmwares provide STA info using v7 of the struct. As v7
> isn't backward compatible, a union is needed.
>
> Even though brcmfmac does not use any of the new info it's important to
> provide the proper struct buffer. Without this change new firmwares will
> fallback to the very limited v3 instead of something in between such as
> v4.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Haab <dan.haab@xxxxxxxxx>

It's too bad Broadcom's existing struct has been changed instead of
just being extended.

The patch looks good to me though. I just wanted to share my opinion /
ping due to patch being marked as "Deferred".

Reviewed-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>




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