Return-path: Received: from mail-wi0-f182.google.com ([209.85.212.182]:37298 "EHLO mail-wi0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932764AbbIYSMH (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Sep 2015 14:12:07 -0400 Received: by wicfx3 with SMTP id fx3so29892696wic.0 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:12:05 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: firmware refresh for BCM43602 PCIE devices To: Kyle McMartin , Arend van Spriel References: <1443120304-11153-1-git-send-email-arend@broadcom.com> <20150925000004.GF26918@merlin.infradead.org> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Rafal Milecki From: Arend van Spriel Message-ID: <56058E74.3060503@gmail.com> (sfid-20150925_201211_757065_F00F115A) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 20:12:04 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150925000004.GF26918@merlin.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 25-09-15 02:00, Kyle McMartin wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 08:45:04PM +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote: >> A number of end-users reported issues with BCM43602 on the 2015 >> MacBook Pro. It turned out the previously released firmware did >> not properly support that device [1]. Hence an update of the STA >> firmware and while at it refresh the AP firmware as well. The >> latter has been tested using Netgear R8000. The STA firmware has >> been tested on MacBook Pro. >> > > Are there version numbers we could update in WHENCE to make this > easier to track? For brcmfmac firmware we don't have version numbers in WHENCE. To be honest it feels a bit redundant as the firmware file itself contains the version number, ie. by doing 'hexdump -C /firmware/ | tail -30'. Regards, Arend > regards, --jkkm > >> [1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100201 >> >> Cc: Rafal Milecki >> Tested-by: Knuth Posern >> Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts >> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel >> --- >> This patch fixes a couple of issues mentioned in kernel bugzilla >> #100201 with 2015 MacBook Pro machines using this wifi chipset. >> >> The patch applies to master branch of the linux-firmware repository >> on top of commit f88e5c2e2ff5 ("Merge 'c11384c' of >> git://people.freedesktop.org/~vivijim/linux-firmware..."). > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >