[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "rtlwifi: rtl8723ae: Fix typo in firmware names" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Jul 16 22:53:55 UTC 2013


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    rtlwifi: rtl8723ae: Fix typo in firmware names

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.5.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 18:14:43 -0500
Subject: rtlwifi: rtl8723ae: Fix typo in firmware names
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commit 73e088ed17c2880a963cc760a78af8a06d4a4d9d upstream.

The driver loads its firmware from files rtlwifi/rtl8723fw*.bin, but the
MODULE_FIRMWARE macros refer to rtlwifi/RTL8723aefw*.bin.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
Reported-by: Axel Köllhofer <AxelKoellhofer at web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723ae/sw.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723ae/sw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723ae/sw.c
index bb7cc90..2b2a522 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723ae/sw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723ae/sw.c
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ static struct rtl_hal_cfg rtl8723ae_hal_cfg = {
 	.bar_id = 2,
 	.write_readback = true,
 	.name = "rtl8723ae_pci",
-	.fw_name = "rtlwifi/rtl8723aefw.bin",
+	.fw_name = "rtlwifi/rtl8723fw.bin",
 	.ops = &rtl8723ae_hal_ops,
 	.mod_params = &rtl8723ae_mod_params,
 	.maps[SYS_ISO_CTRL] = REG_SYS_ISO_CTRL,
@@ -353,8 +353,8 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Realtek WlanFAE	<wlanfae at realtek.com>");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Larry Finger	<Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Realtek 8723E 802.11n PCI wireless");
-MODULE_FIRMWARE("rtlwifi/rtl8723aefw.bin");
-MODULE_FIRMWARE("rtlwifi/rtl8723aefw_B.bin");
+MODULE_FIRMWARE("rtlwifi/rtl8723fw.bin");
+MODULE_FIRMWARE("rtlwifi/rtl8723fw_B.bin");

 module_param_named(swenc, rtl8723ae_mod_params.sw_crypto, bool, 0444);
 module_param_named(debug, rtl8723ae_mod_params.debug, int, 0444);
--
1.8.1.2





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