ACK: [PATCH 0/2][SRU][Xenial] Fix failed to load intel bluetooth firmware

Shrirang Bagul shrirang.bagul at canonical.com
Fri Jul 21 07:12:13 UTC 2017


On Fri, 2017-07-21 at 14:45 +0800, AceLan Kao wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1705633
> 
> [Impact]
> After this linux-firmware bug[1] update the firmware files, it removes intel/ibt-
> 11-16.{ddc,sfi} and add intel/ibt-12-16.{ddc,sfi}, but in btusb driver, it
> hardcoded the hw_variant as 11. So we got this kind of error after the linux-
> firmware package updated and lost the bt functions.
> 
> [ 5.516003] Bluetooth: hci0: Minimum firmware build 1 week 10 2014
> [ 5.516181] bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for intel/ibt-11-16.sfi failed
> with error -2
> [ 5.516183] Bluetooth: hci0: Failed to load Intel firmware file (-2)
> 
> [Fix]
> This patch uses a hw_variant variable to replace the hardcoded 11.
> 
> [Test Case]
> Verified on the machine has this issue, and confirm this patch works.
> 
> [Regression Potential]
> The hw_variant variable has shown up since kernel 3.10 in this commit
>    dffd30e Bluetooth: Add support for Intel Bluetooth device [8087:07dc]
> So, we don't have to worry about old chips don't contains this info, since it
> exists
> and be used for a very long time.
> 
> 1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/+bug/1686815
> 
> Jürg Billeter (1):
>   Bluetooth: btintel: Add MODULE_FIRMWARE entries for iBT 3.5
>     controllers
> 
> Tedd Ho-Jeong An (1):
>   Bluetooth: Replace constant hw_variant from Intel Bluetooth firmware
>     filename
> 
>  drivers/bluetooth/btintel.c |  2 ++
>  drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c   | 13 +++++++++----
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 
> 
Acked-by: Shrirang Bagul <shrirang.bagul at canonical.com>




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