wifi: rtw89: add firmware format version to backward compatible with older drivers
authorPing-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Mon, 20 Mar 2023 13:06:06 +0000 (21:06 +0800)
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Fri, 14 Apr 2023 12:13:59 +0000 (15:13 +0300)
commitffde7f3476a6dfd5856dc2af207dd0f950b10122
treeecb607548173be25a28a3b662b227012d1fa2ab9
parentb80ad23a8f2e0b63384cadc0aa2c1135b1dc03eb
wifi: rtw89: add firmware format version to backward compatible with older drivers

In the discuss threads [1] [2], new firmware format break user space
because older drivers can't recognize new firmware format. To avoid this,
the new format will be named rtw89/rtw8852b_fw-1.bin and only new driver
try to load it. Old drivers only load original and understandable firmware
rtw89/rtw8852b_fw.bin.

More, new driver will be still backward compatible with old firmware, so
original firmware can be used by new driver.

If there is newer firmware format is introduced, rtw89/rtw8852b_fw-2.bin
will be given. The same rules will be applied like above. So, we will have
firmware like below in linux-firmware in the future.

  rtw89/rtw8852b_fw-2.bin
  rtw89/rtw8852b_fw-1.bin
  rtw89/rtw8852b_fw.bin

After this patch, MODULE_FIRMWARE() of 8852A/B/C become
  rtw89/rtw8852a_fw.bin
  rtw89/rtw8852b_fw-1.bin
  rtw89/rtw8852c_fw.bin

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/df1ce994-3368-a57e-7078-8bdcccf4a1fd@gmail.com/T/#m24cb43be31a762d0ea70bf07f27ae96c59f6931b
[2] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217207

Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230320130606.20777-4-pkshih@realtek.com
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/core.c
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/core.h
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/fw.c
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/fw.h
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/rtw8852a.c
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/rtw8852b.c
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/rtw8852c.c