From: Joerg Albert <jal2@gmx.de>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: "otus-devel@lists.madwifi-project.org"
<otus-devel@lists.madwifi-project.org>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@atheros.com>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: [otus-devel] Release of Atheros 802.11n USB Linux driver
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:24:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49071272.8050700@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43e72e890810271635i5b6dd6e4ua06b48e624991435@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/28/2008 12:35 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> This is now fixed on the master branch, also the branch "for-upstream"
> does a lot of cleanup I thought you may like before stuffing it into
> staging like removing all KERNEL_VERSION checks, all wireless
> extensions checks, some compile warnings, removal of compat, dos2unix,
> use utf-8, etc. Unfortunately this still requires a specific version
> of wpa_supplicant but it seems it works. Not sure what bars you have
> for staging at this point.
I was a bit disappointed to find binary-only firmware inside the
driver (HalPlus/OTUS_FB50/{hpfwbu,hpfwuinit}.c which is downloaded
into the device during startup (initially thought this to be a
complete OpenSource driver :-(
Unless the attitude towards binary chunks inside the Linux kernel
have changed, I guess these should be moved into userspace using the
firmware_class driver to access it.
/Joerg
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From: Joerg Albert <jal2@gmx.de>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: "otus-devel@lists.madwifi-project.org"
<otus-devel@venema.h4ckr.net>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@atheros.com>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: [otus-devel] Release of Atheros 802.11n USB Linux driver
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:24:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49071272.8050700@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43e72e890810271635i5b6dd6e4ua06b48e624991435@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/28/2008 12:35 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> This is now fixed on the master branch, also the branch "for-upstream"
> does a lot of cleanup I thought you may like before stuffing it into
> staging like removing all KERNEL_VERSION checks, all wireless
> extensions checks, some compile warnings, removal of compat, dos2unix,
> use utf-8, etc. Unfortunately this still requires a specific version
> of wpa_supplicant but it seems it works. Not sure what bars you have
> for staging at this point.
I was a bit disappointed to find binary-only firmware inside the
driver (HalPlus/OTUS_FB50/{hpfwbu,hpfwuinit}.c which is downloaded
into the device during startup (initially thought this to be a
complete OpenSource driver :-(
Unless the attitude towards binary chunks inside the Linux kernel
have changed, I guess these should be moved into userspace using the
firmware_class driver to access it.
/Joerg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-28 13:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-22 2:04 Release of Atheros 802.11n USB Linux driver Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-22 6:50 ` Greg KH
2008-10-23 6:26 ` Greg KH
2008-10-23 6:26 ` Greg KH
2008-10-23 11:11 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-23 11:11 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-27 23:35 ` [otus-devel] " Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-27 23:35 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-28 0:29 ` Greg KH
2008-10-28 0:29 ` Greg KH
2008-10-28 0:55 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-28 0:55 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-28 5:56 ` Greg KH
2008-10-28 5:56 ` Greg KH
2008-10-28 14:17 ` Joerg Albert
2008-10-28 14:17 ` Joerg Albert
2008-10-28 5:54 ` Joey Krane
2008-10-28 5:54 ` Joey Krane
2008-10-28 13:24 ` Joerg Albert [this message]
2008-10-28 13:24 ` Joerg Albert
2008-10-28 15:18 ` Greg KH
2008-10-28 15:18 ` Greg KH
2008-10-22 8:28 ` Florian Fainelli
2008-10-22 8:28 ` Florian Fainelli
2008-10-22 16:13 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-22 16:13 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-22 10:05 ` Michael Renzmann
2008-10-23 23:37 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-23 23:37 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-24 6:28 ` [otus-devel] " Michael Renzmann
2008-10-24 6:28 ` Michael Renzmann
2008-10-24 13:41 ` Joerg Albert
2008-10-24 13:41 ` Joerg Albert
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