Question about WCN6855 firmware versions

[Kalle Valo]

jloretto70 <jloretto70 at proton.me> writes:

> I have a WCN6855 (hw2.1) card and am currently using the latest
> firmware files from the kernel.org repo which are labeled 3.6510.9 in
> the commit message. I see that there is a more recent set of files
> labeled 3.6510.16 in the GitHub repo for this card. Are these firmware
> files safe to use or is the best practice to wait until they land in
> the official kernel.org repo?

For the end users I recommend using the ath11k firmware files from the
official linux-firmware unless you have a specific reason to update
(reporting a bug etc). That way there's more testing by the developers
before you get access to it.

I try update latest ath11k-firmware releases to linux-firmware roughly
every three months, so it really comes down to if you want run bleeding
edge or not.

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