[Letux-kernel] Kernel 4.5-rc3

[H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hi,
I have merged/rebased to kernel 4.5-rc3.
No significant changes observed yet.

Except that I have fixed an issue with the twl4030-charger you maybe have not
even been aware (one of Marek's patches submitted a while ago was neither
upstream nor in our tree).

I have also upgraded the libertas patches, but for me it still does not find or install
the firmware (I have the package from Debian 8.2):

[   15.390777] libertas_sdio: Libertas SDIO driver
[   15.395599] libertas_sdio: Copyright Pierre Ossman
[   15.400695] driver_register 'libertas_sdio'
done.
^[[?1;0c[   15.860626] libertas_sdio: failed to load helper firmware

root at letux:~# cd /lib/firmware
root at letux:/lib/firmware# find -name  "sd8686*" 
./libertas/sd8686_v9.bin
./libertas/sd8686_v9_helper.bin
./libertas/sd8686_v8_helper.bin
./libertas/sd8686_v8.bin
./sd8686.bin
./sd8686_helper.bin
root at letux:/lib/firmware# ifconfig -a
hso0      Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          POINTOPOINT NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1486  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:10 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:96 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:96 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:9120 (8.9 KiB)  TX bytes:9120 (8.9 KiB)

usb0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 2a:72:e3:80:70:b2  
          inet addr:192.168.0.202  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

root at letux:~# dpkg -l |fgrep libertas
ii  firmware-libertas       0.43             all              Binary firmware for Marvell Libertas 8xxx wireless 
ii  libertas-firmware       9.70.7.p0.0-2    all              Firmware for Marvell's libertas wireless chip serie
root at letux:~# 

Probably I should look up the location of the "failed to load helper firmware" and try
to printk() the file path and error message.

BR,
Nikolaus