Re: [PATCH] ath9k: fix calibration data endianness

From: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
Date: Sat Apr 15 2023 - 11:33:28 EST


Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> BCM63xx (Big Endian MIPS) devices store the calibration data in MTD
> partitions but it needs to be swapped in order to work, otherwise it fails:
> ath9k 0000:00:01.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
> ath: phy0: Ignoring endianness difference in EEPROM magic bytes.
> ath: phy0: Bad EEPROM VER 0x0001 or REV 0x00e0
> ath: phy0: Unable to initialize hardware; initialization status: -22
> ath9k 0000:00:01.0: Failed to initialize device
> ath9k: probe of 0000:00:01.0 failed with error -22

How does this affect other platforms? Why was the NO_EEP_SWAP flag set
in the first place? Christian, care to comment on this?

-Toke