fetching calibration data from flash

[Matti Laakso]

> Hi List,
>
> currently ath10k fetches calibration data from the board.bin file
> via request_firmware(). Usually HW manufactures are using one
> flash partition for the calibration data (see ath9k for example).
> So we would end up reading the file from flash, and writing it into
> a ramdisk so that ath10k can fetch it.
>
> I would prefer to add support to ath10k to fetch that data directly from
> flash. IMHO there are two options to do so:
>
> a) Use platform data, like ath9k does.
>
> b) add a module option to ath10k, and let ath10k fetch the files via mtd 
> API.
>      Has the downside of requiring MTD (maybe add a config option to 
> disable that?),
>      but i like that more than the ath9k way of reading an arbitrary 
> memory region and
>      circumventing the MTD layer.
>
> Any thoughts? I can prepare a patch if needed.
>
> Sven

There's yet another method: Use platform data to provide only a file
name and then use request_firmware to load it from a file under
/lib/firmware. Then it is up to the platform support code to get the
data there. This is used in OpenWrt by rt2x00 drivers.

Matti