Re: [PATCH 5.10 350/379] mwifiex: Select firmware based on strapping

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On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 02:08:49PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 5.10-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

Same comment here as on the 5.15 review: drop patches 350 and 351.

Kind regards,
Alvin

> 
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> 
> From: Andrejs Cainikovs <andrejs.cainikovs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 255ca28a659d3cfb069f73c7644853ed93aecdb0 ]
> 
> Some WiFi/Bluetooth modules might have different host connection
> options, allowing to either use SDIO for both WiFi and Bluetooth,
> or SDIO for WiFi and UART for Bluetooth. It is possible to detect
> whether a module has SDIO-SDIO or SDIO-UART connection by reading
> its host strap register.
> 
> This change introduces a way to automatically select appropriate
> firmware depending of the connection method, and removes a need
> of symlinking or overwriting the original firmware file with a
> required one.
> 
> Host strap register used in this commit comes from the NXP driver [1]
> hosted at Code Aurora.
> 
> [1] https://source.codeaurora.org/external/imx/linux-imx/tree/drivers/net/wireless/nxp/mxm_wifiex/wlan_src/mlinux/moal_sdio_mmc.c?h=rel_imx_5.4.70_2.3.2&id=688b67b2c7220b01521ffe560da7eee33042c7bd#n1274
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrejs Cainikovs <andrejs.cainikovs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Alvin Šipraga <alsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220422090313.125857-2-andrejs.cainikovs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Stable-dep-of: 1c5d463c0770 ("wifi: mwifiex: add extra delay for firmware ready")
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

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