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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h | 32 |
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h index f68883b3246..81ddca07717 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h @@ -164,9 +164,39 @@ struct iwl_mod_params { int restart_fw; /* def: 1 = restart firmware */ }; +/** + * struct iwl_cfg + * @fw_name_pre: Firmware filename prefix. The api version and extension + * (.ucode) will be added to filename before loading from disk. The + * filename is constructed as fw_name_pre<api>.ucode. + * @ucode_api_max: Highest version of uCode API supported by driver. + * @ucode_api_min: Lowest version of uCode API supported by driver. + * + * We enable the driver to be backward compatible wrt API version. The + * driver specifies which APIs it supports (with @ucode_api_max being the + * highest and @ucode_api_min the lowest). Firmware will only be loaded if + * it has a supported API version. The firmware's API version will be + * stored in @iwl_priv, enabling the driver to make runtime changes based + * on firmware version used. + * + * For example, + * if (IWL_UCODE_API(priv->ucode_ver) >= 2) { + * Driver interacts with Firmware API version >= 2. + * } else { + * Driver interacts with Firmware API version 1. + * } + * + * The ideal usage of this infrastructure is to treat a new ucode API + * release as a new hardware revision. That is, through utilizing the + * iwl_hcmd_utils_ops etc. we accommodate different command structures + * and flows between hardware versions (4965/5000) as well as their API + * versions. + */ struct iwl_cfg { const char *name; - const char *fw_name; + const char *fw_name_pre; + const unsigned int ucode_api_max; + const unsigned int ucode_api_min; unsigned int sku; int eeprom_size; u16 eeprom_ver; |