Re: Make WCN6855 work in 5.16.0

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On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 07:42:35PM +0000, Limonciello, Mario wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I found recently that WCN6855 even with the latest firmware doesn't work on 5.16.  As a result of not working it causes failures during suspend: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215504
> 
> However the reason that wireless isn't working in 5.16.0 is because the way to find the board IDs in the firmware binary needs modification.  I can confirm that it's able to parse once
> commit fc95d10ac41d75c14a81afcc8722333d8b2cf80f ("ath11k: add string type to search board data in board-2.bin for WCN6855") is backported and that avoids the suspend bug (that otherwise still occurs when no firmware found and should separately be fixed) so I think this is a good candidate to come back to 5.16.y.
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> Thanks,

Now queued up, thanks!

greg k-h



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