[Natty linux-firmware] [pull-request] UBUNTU: Add symlinks to broadcom firmware files

[Tim Gardner]

On 03/18/2011 01:48 PM, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 13:02 -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
>> On 03/18/2011 12:02 PM, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
>>> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/728746
>>>
>>> The brcm80211 module tries to load non-existent firmware and thus throws
>>> the following type of error:
>>>
>>> brcm80211: fail to load firmware brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw
>>> brcm80211: Failed to find firmware usually in /lib/firmware/brcm
>>>
>>> The necessary firmware is actually available at:
>>>
>>> /lib/firmware/brcm/bcm43xx-0-610-809-0.fw
>>> /lib/firmware/brcm/bcm43xx_hdr-0-610-809-0.fw
>>>
>>> Adding symlinks to the proper files resolves the issue and has been
>>> confirmed by the bug reporter to allow the driver/device to operate as
>>> expected.
>
>> While symlinks will solve this particular problem, its not the way the
>> rest of the firmware files are used. I think we should simply rename the
>> firmware file to what the driver is expecting. That way its clear on the
>> next update that you have to rename your incoming versioned file to
>> something the driver can load (bcm43xx-0.fw for example). Its also
>> consistent with the way the rest of the firmware files are handled. We
>> also keep track of the firmware version number in WHENCE.
>
> Sounds reasonable to me.  The updated pull request below renames the
> files rather than creating symlinks.
>
> The following changes since commit bd96ae379112b379396a2c1da83601932236f18e:
>
>    Ubuntu-1.48 (2011-03-03 07:55:43 -0700)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>    git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ogasawara/linux-firmware.git lp728746v2
>
> Leann Ogasawara (1):
>        UBUNTU: Rename bcm43xx Broadcom Firmware Files
>
>   brcm/{bcm43xx-0-610-809-0.fw =>  bcm43xx-0.fw}      |  Bin 97376 ->  97376 bytes
>   ...bcm43xx_hdr-0-610-809-0.fw =>  bcm43xx_hdr-0.fw} |  Bin 180 ->  180 bytes
>   2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>   rename brcm/{bcm43xx-0-610-809-0.fw =>  bcm43xx-0.fw} (100%)
>   rename brcm/{bcm43xx_hdr-0-610-809-0.fw =>  bcm43xx_hdr-0.fw} (100%)
>
>

Applied and uploaded

-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com