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Re: Droid 4 WiFi firmware loading error

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Hi Tony,

>> WTF :(
>> 
>> Right now the BT driver and the WiFi driver are no aware of
>> each other. Actually the kernel is not even aware, that both
>> drivers are using the same chip. Unfortunately this will be
>> tricky to solve properly. Since a system may have two WiLink
>> devices, the only solution coming to my mind would be adding
>> a link from the BT device to the WiFi device in device tree.
>> Additionally we would need something in the WiLink driver to
>> check if driver has been initialized properly for a given DT
>> node.
> 
> Yeah exactly.. I think the best way would be to export something
> like wlcore_register_bt/wlcore_unregister_bt.. And then have
> wlcore_register_bt return -EAGAIN until wlcore is up.

actually NO.

We have rejected this many times for all hardware manufacturers. Please fix the firmware instead.

Regards

Marcel




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