netdev - Re: [PATCH] Revert "ath10k: Search SMBIOS for OEM board file extension"

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Date:   Tue, 21 Feb 2017 16:00:07 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     kvalo@....qualcomm.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        ath10k@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "ath10k: Search SMBIOS for OEM board file
 extension"

From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@....qualcomm.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 21:47:06 +0200

> This reverts commit f2593cb1b29185d38db706cbcbe22ed538720ae1.
> 
> Paul reported that this patch with older board-2.bin ath10k initialisation
> fails on Dell XPS 13:
> 
> ath10k_pci 0000:3a:00.0: failed to fetch board data for bus=pci,vendor=168c,
> device=003e,subsystem-vendor=1a56,subsystem-device=1535,variant=RV_0520 from
> ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/board-2.bin
> 
> The reason is that the older board-2.bin does not have the variant version of
> the image name and ath10k does not fallback to the older naming scheme.
> 
> Reported-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>
> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185621#c9
> Fixes: f2593cb1b291 ("ath10k: Search SMBIOS for OEM board file extension")
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@....qualcomm.com>
> ---
> 
> Dave, please take this directly if you can.

Applied, thanks Kalle.