Hi Greg, On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 02:07:58PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > 5.15-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. - [PATCH 5.15 427/476] mwifiex: Select firmware based on strapping Greg Kroah-Hartman - [PATCH 5.15 428/476] wifi: mwifiex: Support SD8978 chipset Greg Kroah-Hartman Both of the above are marked as stable-deps of this one: - [PATCH 5.15 429/476] wifi: mwifiex: add extra delay for firmware ready Greg Kroah-Hartman but they are not at all relevant, so I think patches 427 and 428 should be dropped. But patch 429 is OK for stable as long as 431 is included: - [PATCH 5.15 431/476] wifi: mwifiex: fix uninitialized firmware_stat Greg Kroah-Hartman Kind regards, Alvin > > ------------------ > > 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> > --- [...]
