Re: [PATCH] Add prism 2/3 usb adaptor firmware for use with staging/wlan-ng driver.

[Karl Relton <karllinuxtest.relton@ntlworld.com>]

On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 12:17 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Karl
> Relton<karllinuxtest.relton@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > Signed-Off-By: Karl Relton
> > Signed-Off-By: Mark S. Mathews
> 
> The commit log is empty. Where is this driver? Is it in staging at
> least? If so does this get users of the driver a usable firmware? What
> is the future of the driver BTW?
> 

Oops - put text in wrong part of patch documentation. I can move this up
to the 'commit log' part.

The driver is under 'staging' - maintained by Greg Koah-Hartman

The firmware blob in 'srec' format for prism 2/3 usb adaptors.
The driver will read the srec file using a standard request_firmware()
call, and will convert it into the appropriate binary format and upload to
the adaptor. Note the processing is left to the driver (rather than
pre-compiling) because the driver needs to insert runtime data obtained from
the adaptor into the blob. The appropriate insertion locations are conveyed
by the srec format.

Karl