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The si2168 B40 firmware file name has been changed in or before 2014. During initialization, the new file name is preferred, but the old file name is used as a fallback when request_firmware with the new file name fails. Once reading the old file name has been attempted, only this name will be used on further firmware loading attempts. During resume, firmware reading with the new file name can (and likely will) fail even when it actually exists. So this permanent switch to the fallback firmware name happens even when not desired. Any system using a recent kernel version can be expected to have the firmware under the new name. The major distributions are either using the dvb firmware collection from LibreELEC, which has the new firmware file name, or do not package the firmware file but have documentation pointing towards a manual installation of the firmware file under the new name. If the firmware is available under the old name, it is severely outdated. If the switch to the old file name is performed, further firmware loading will either permanently fail (if it is not available) or an outdated firmware version will be used. Drop support for the fallback firmware file name and fail directly if the firmware is not available under its current name. On following attempts, the firmware read will then be retried with the correct current name instead of the old name. As reasoned above, there should be no negative effects of this change, while simplifying code (the B40 variant will be handled identical compared to the other variants of the si2168) and at the same time fixing possible problems if firmware loading fails on resume. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20210418161544.58858-1-kernel@tuxforce.de Signed-off-by: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@tuxforce.de> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> |
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| cec | ||
| common | ||
| dvb-core | ||
| dvb-frontends | ||
| firewire | ||
| i2c | ||
| mc | ||
| mmc | ||
| pci | ||
| platform | ||
| radio | ||
| rc | ||
| spi | ||
| test-drivers | ||
| tuners | ||
| usb | ||
| v4l2-core | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Makefile | ||