Re: [PATCH 2/6] wl1251: Use request_firmware_prefer_user() for loading NVS calibration data
From: Kalle Valo
Date: Fri Jan 27 2017 - 10:24:12 EST
Pali RohÃr <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Friday 27 January 2017 14:26:22 Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Pali RohÃr <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> > 2) It was already tested that example NVS data can be used for N900 e.g.
>> > for SSH connection. If real correct data are not available it is better
>> > to use at least those example (and probably log warning message) so user
>> > can connect via SSH and start investigating where is problem.
>>
>> I disagree. Allowing default calibration data to be used can be
>> unnoticed by user and left her wondering why wifi works so badly.
>
> So there are only two options:
>
> 1) Disallow it and so these users will have non-working wifi.
>
> 2) Allow those data to be used as fallback mechanism.
>
> And personally I'm against 1) because it will break wifi support for
> *all* Nokia N900 devices right now.
All two of them? :)
But not working is exactly my point, if correct calibration data is not
available wifi should not work. And it's not only about functionality
problems, there's also the regulatory aspect.
>> > 3) If we do rename *now* we will totally break wifi support on Nokia
>> > N900.
>>
>> Then the distro should fix that when updating the linux-firmware
>> packages. Can you provide details about the setup, what distro etc?
>
> Debian stable, Ubuntu LTSs 14.04, 16.04.
You can run these out of box on N900?
> And I think that other LTS distributions contains that example nvs
> file too (I'm not going to verify others, but list will be probably
> long). Upgrading linux-firmware is against policy of those
> distributions. So no this is not an solution.
So instead we should workaround distro policies in kernel? Come on.
Seriously, just rename the file in linux-firmware and file a bug (with a
patch) to distros. If they don't fix the bug you just have to do a
custom hack for N900. But such is life.
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Kalle Valo