wl1271: skip 3 unused bytes from the NVS

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>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_boot.c b/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_boot.c
index 57ba78d83e87..fb3090c3ed15 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_boot.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_boot.c
@@ -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.