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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] mwl8k: bump firmware API to 3
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>
Cc: Jonas Gorski <jogo@openwrt.org>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
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	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>,
	Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:44:28 +0100
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On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 20:43 +0530, Yogesh Ashok Powar wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 06:31:12AM -0800, Jonas Gorski wrote:
> > On 3 January 2013 08:54, Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com> wrote:
> > > New firmware is required to support
> > > a) Add support for additional ampdu streams
> > > b) Handle corresponding watchdog events to destroy ampdu streams
> > >
> > > Bumping firmware API version by one.
> > 
> > Soo ... where does one get this new firmware version? I don't see it
> > anywhere (especially not in linux-firmware.git). AFAICT mwl8k in
> > ap-mode is currently broken since this patch got in.
> 
> Hi Jonas,
> 
> We have already mailed the API-3 firmware to Ben Hutching for adding
> it to linux-firmware.git.
> 
> Meanwhile please get the new AP firmware from
> https://github.com/yogeshpowar/mwl8k_ap_firmware

I think you really ought to support previous firmware and next firmware
for a while at least so not everybody is forced to upgrade
immediately...

johannes