[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] mac80211: install old firmware for ath9k-htc on target as well

[Alexey Brodkin]

Hi Hauke,

On Tue, 2016-03-15 at 23:31 +0100, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> On 03/15/2016 02:06 PM, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> > 
> > In commit
> > http://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt.git;a=commit;h=3990e15258808b145226d7e95332c4708f9f9463
> > I got rid of older ath9k_htc firmware in favor of newer ones.
> > 
> > But that was not completely correct.
> > New v1.4 ath9k_htc firmwares are supported in Linux kernels >= 4.4.
> > And since not all boards were moved to 4.4 yet it makes perfect
> > sense to get back installation of older firmwares for compatibility
> > purposes.
> > 
> NACK
> 
> ath9k_htc is provided by compat-wireless and not taken from normal
> kernel. The compat-wireless version in trunk is based on a version more
> recent than 4.4 independent of the kernel actually in use. You can
> assume that the ath9k_htc driver is similar to the one used in kernel
> 4.5 for all OpenWrt kernels in trunk.

That makes perfect sense.

-Alexey
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