Oleksij Rempel <li...@rempel-privat.de> writes:

> Current kernel support only one fw name with theoretically only one
> fw version located in “firmware/htc_[9271|7010].fw”. Which is ok so far we
> have only one fw version (1.3). After we realised new fw 1.4, we faced
> compatibility problem which was decided to solve by firmware name and
> location:
> - new firmware is located now in
>       firmware/ath9k_htc/htc_[9271|7010]-1.4.0.fw
> - old version 1.3 should be on old place, so old kernel have no issues
>       with it.
> - new kernels including this patch should be able to try different
>       supported (min..max) fw version.
> - new kernel should be able to support old fw location too. At least for
>       now.
>
> At same time this patch will add new module option which should allow user
> to play with development  fw version without replacing stable one. If user
> will set “ath9k_htc use_dev_fw=1” module will try to find
> firmware/ath9k_htc/htc_[9271|7010]-1.dev.0.fw first and if it fails, use
> stable version: for example...1.4.0.fw.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <li...@rempel-privat.de>

Thanks, applied manually. You forgot to CC linux-wireless and hence
patchwork didn't see this.

In the future please add a changelog when sending new versions of a
patch.

-- 
Kalle Valo
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