hi,

On 12 December 2016 at 12:05, Martin Blumenstingl
[off-list ref] wrote:

It seems that there are a few devices out there where the whole EEPROM
is swab16'ed which switches the position of the 1-byte fields
opCapFlags and eepMisc.
those still work fine with the new code, however I had a second patch
in LEDE [0] which results in ath9k_platform_data.endian_check NOT
being set anymore.
that endian_check flag was used before to swab16 the whole EEPROM, to
correct the position of the 1-byte fields again.
Currently we are fixing this in the firmware hotplug script: [1]
This is definitely not a blocker for this series though (if we want to
have a devicetree replacement for "ath9k_platform_data.endian_check"
then I'd work on that within a separate series, but I somewhat
consider these EEPROMs as "broken" so fixing them in
userspace/firmware hotplug script is fine for me)

As a reference - the reference driver has been doign this for a while.
It attempts to detect the endianness by looking at the 0xa55a
signature endian and figuring out which endian the actual contents are
in.

So just FYI yeah, this is a "thing" for reasons I don't quite know.



-adrian

Regards,
Martin


[0] https://git.lede-project.org/?p=source.git;a=commitdiff;h=a20616863d32d91163043b6657a63c836bd9c5ba
[1] https://git.lede-project.org/?p=source.git;a=commitdiff;h=afa37092663d00aa0abf8c61943d9a1b5558b144