This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ath9k_htc: accept 1.x firmware newer than 1.3
to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ath9k_htc-accept-1.x-firmware-newer-than-1.3.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 319e7bd96aca64a478f3aad40711c928405b8b77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 21:10:48 +0200
Subject: ath9k_htc: accept 1.x firmware newer than 1.3
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 319e7bd96aca64a478f3aad40711c928405b8b77 upstream.
Since the firmware has been open sourced, the minor version has been
bumped to 1.4 and the API/ABI will stay compatible across further 1.x
releases.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c
@@ -823,7 +823,7 @@ static int ath9k_init_firmware_version(s
* required version.
*/
if (priv->fw_version_major != MAJOR_VERSION_REQ ||
- priv->fw_version_minor != MINOR_VERSION_REQ) {
+ priv->fw_version_minor < MINOR_VERSION_REQ) {
dev_err(priv->dev, "ath9k_htc: Please upgrade to FW version %d.%d\n",
MAJOR_VERSION_REQ, MINOR_VERSION_REQ);
return -EINVAL;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.0/ath9k_htc-accept-1.x-firmware-newer-than-1.3.patch
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