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    wimax/i2400m: driver loads firmware v1.4 instead of v1.3 · 494ef10e
    Inaky Perez-Gonzalez authored
    This is a one liner change to have the driver use by default the v1.4
    of the i2400m firmware instead of v1.3. The v1.4 version of the
    firmware has been submitted to David Woodhouse for inclusion in the
    linux-firmware tree and it is already available at
    http://linuxwimax.org/Download.
    
    The reason for this change is that the 1.3 release of the user space
    software and firmware has a few issues that will make it difficult to
    use with currently deployed commercial networks such as Xohm and
    Clearwire.
    
    As well, the new 1.4 release of the user space software (which matches
    the 1.4 firmware) has intermitent issues with the 1.3 firmware.
    
    The 1.4 release in http://linuxwimax.org/Download
    
     has been widely
    deployed and tested with the codebase in 2.6.29-rc, the 1.4 firmware
    and the 1.4 user space components.
    
    We understand it is quite late in the rc process for such a change,
    but would like to ask for the change to be taken into consideration.
    
    Alternatively, a user could always force feed a 1.4 firmware into a
    driver that doesn't have this modification by:
    
    $ cd /lib/firmware
    $ mv i2400m-fw-usb-1.3.sbcf i2400m-fw-usb-1.3.real.sbcf
    $ ln -sf i2400m-fw-usb-1.4.sbc i2400m-fw-usb-1.3.sbcf
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarInaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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