linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 ath-current 0/2] wifi: ath11k: add usecase firmware handling based on device compatible

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Message-Id: <176978613758.3951544.9836085450267342032.b4-ty@oss.qualcomm.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 07:15:37 -0800
From: Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@....qualcomm.com>
To: jjohnson@...nel.org, johannes@...solutions.net, robh@...nel.org,
        krzk+dt@...nel.org, conor+dt@...nel.org,
        Miaoqing Pan <miaoqing.pan@....qualcomm.com>
Cc: ath11k@...ts.infradead.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        jonas.gorski@...il.com, krzk@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 ath-current 0/2] wifi: ath11k: add usecase firmware
 handling based on device compatible


On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:50:53 +0800, Miaoqing Pan wrote:
> The 'firmware-name' property was introduced to allow end-users and
> integrators to select use-case-specific firmware for the WCN6855.
> But for M.2 WLAN chips, there is no suitable DTS node to specify
> the 'firmware-name' property. In addition, assigning firmware for
> the M.2 PCIe interface causes chips that do not use use-case-specific
> firmware to fail. Therefore, abandoning the approach of specifying
> firmware in DTS. As an alternative, propose a static lookup table
> mapping device compatible to firmware names.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/2] wifi: ath11k: add usecase firmware handling based on device compatible
      commit: c386a2b1068910538e87ef1cf2fc938ebf7e218f
[2/2] dt-bindings: net: wireless: ath11k-pci: deprecate 'firmware-name' property
      commit: adce4fa499611c1c6eaf19d6fb0305ec0731d06f

Best regards,
-- 
Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@....qualcomm.com>