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wl1271: skip 3 unused bytes from the NVS

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Our NVS uploading mechanism had a bug that was causing it to pass three extra
zeros at the start of the NVS.  This may be a problem in the NVS generation
application, but for now we fix it in the driver.

Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Luciano Coelho 2010-02-18 13:25:45 +02:00 committed by John W. Linville
parent 12419cce88
commit 6f8434a754
1 changed files with 8 additions and 3 deletions
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drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_boot.c
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@ -277,9 +277,14 @@ static int wl1271_boot_upload_nvs(struct wl1271 *wl)
wl1271_set_partition(wl, &part_table[PART_WORK]);
/* Copy the NVS tables to a new block to ensure alignment */
nvs_aligned = kmemdup(nvs_ptr, nvs_len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!nvs_aligned)
return -ENOMEM;
/* FIXME: We jump 3 more bytes before uploading the NVS. It seems
that our NVS files have three extra zeros here. I'm not sure whether
the problem is in our NVS generation or we should really jumpt these
3 bytes here */
nvs_ptr += 3;
nvs_aligned = kmemdup(nvs_ptr, nvs_len, GFP_KERNEL); if
(!nvs_aligned) return -ENOMEM;
/* And finally we upload the NVS tables */
/* FIXME: In wl1271, we upload everything at once.