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    media: si2168: drop support for old firmware file name for si2168 B40 · 40ae6eff
    Lukas Middendorf authored
    The si2168 B40 firmware file name has been changed in or before 2014.
    During initialization, the new file name is preferred, but the old file
    name is used as a fallback when request_firmware with the new file name
    fails. Once reading the old file name has been attempted, only this name
    will be used on further firmware loading attempts. During resume,
    firmware reading with the new file name can (and likely will) fail even
    when it actually exists. So this permanent switch to the fallback
    firmware name happens even when not desired.
    
    Any system using a recent kernel version can be expected to have the
    firmware under the new name. The major distributions are either using
    the dvb firmware collection from LibreELEC, which has the new firmware
    file name, or do not package the firmware file but have documentation
    pointing towards a manual installation of the firmware file under the
    new name. If the firmware is available under the old name, it is
    severely outdated. If the switch to the old file name is performed,
    further firmware loading will either permanently fail (if it is not
    available) or an outdated firmware version will be used.
    
    Drop support for the fallback firmware file name and fail directly if
    the firmware is not available under its current name. On following
    attempts, the firmware read will then be retried with the correct
    current name instead of the old name.
    
    As reasoned above, there should be no negative effects of this change,
    while simplifying code (the B40 variant will be handled identical
    compared to the other variants of the si2168) and at the same time
    fixing possible problems if firmware loading fails on resume.
    
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20210418161544.58858-1-kernel@tuxforce.deSigned-off-by: default avatarLukas Middendorf <kernel@tuxforce.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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