[PATCH 1/4] brcmfmac: Add brcm,nvram_file_name dt property
Jonas Gorski
jonas.gorski at gmail.com
Wed Jun 29 07:42:32 PDT 2016
Hi,
On 29 June 2016 at 16:04, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
> Add a brcm,nvram_file_name dt property to allow overruling the default
> nvram filename for sdio devices. The idea is that we can specify a
> board specific nvram file, e.g. brcmfmac43362-ap6210.txt for boards
> with an ap6210 wifi sdio module and ship this in linux-firmware, so
> that wifi will work out of the box, without requiring users to find
> and then manually install the right nvram file for their board.
Directly defining a filename doesn't seem like a good OS-agnostic
approach. Maybe an alternative would be to add a model-property to the
nodes (this is allowed) and make brcmfmac to request
"FWFILENAME-<model>" as firmware if set? That would leave it to the OS
on how the filename is set.
Regards
Jonas
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