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Subject: Re: brcmfmac: update STA info struct to the v5
From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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Date: Wed,  4 Jul 2018 15:08:35 +0000 (UTC)
Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org

Rafał Miłecki wrote:

> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
> 
> That struct is used when querying firmware for the STA. It seem is has
> been changing during the time. Luckily its format seems to be backward
> compatible starting with v2 (the only breakage was v1 -> v2).
> 
> The version that was supported by brcmfmac so far was v4. It was what
> 43602a1 and 4366b1 firmwares (7.35.177.56 and 10.10.69.3309 accordingly)
> were using. It also seems to be used by early 4366c0 firmwares
> (10.10.69.6908 and 10.10.69.69017).
> 
> The problem appears when switching to the 10.10.122.20 firmware. It uses
> v5 and instead of falling back to v4 when submitted buffer isn't big
> enough it fallbacks to the v3.
> 
> To receive all v4 specific info with the newest firmware we have to
> submit a struct (buffer) that matches v5.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
> Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

07b1ae468749 brcmfmac: update STA info struct to the v5

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10493539/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches