Stand-alone ath10k-ct driver.

Stand-alone ath10k-ct driver.

[Ben Greear]

Hello!

I have made an attempt to provide a stand-alone ath10k driver that should compile
and work against stock 4.7 kernels.  This should provide better support for CT ath10k
firmware without having to apply large numbers of patches.  My 4.7 kernel has only been very lightly tested
to date, and the stand-alone driver is only compile tested.  I will update the
ath-ct repo often as testing progresses on 4.7.

If there are brave souls that want to try it out, I'd appreciate any feedback.

https://github.com/greearb/ath-ct

See the README.txt for some details.  This will require at least some familiarity
with building kernels since I do not have any nice automation to compile against
the current running kernel yet, for instance.

Thanks,
Ben

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Stand-alone ath10k-ct driver.

[Ben Greear]

Hello!

I have made an attempt to provide a stand-alone ath10k driver that should compile
and work against stock 4.7 kernels.  This should provide better support for CT ath10k
firmware without having to apply large numbers of patches.  My 4.7 kernel has only been very lightly tested
to date, and the stand-alone driver is only compile tested.  I will update the
ath-ct repo often as testing progresses on 4.7.

If there are brave souls that want to try it out, I'd appreciate any feedback.

https://github.com/greearb/ath-ct

See the README.txt for some details.  This will require at least some familiarity
with building kernels since I do not have any nice automation to compile against
the current running kernel yet, for instance.

Thanks,
Ben

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Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

Re: Stand-alone ath10k-ct driver.

[Sebastian Gottschall]

Am 20.06.2016 um 23:52 schrieb Ben Greear:
> Hello!
>
> I have made an attempt to provide a stand-alone ath10k driver that 
> should compile
> and work against stock 4.7 kernels.  This should provide better 
> support for CT ath10k
> firmware without having to apply large numbers of patches.  My 4.7 
> kernel has only been very lightly tested
> to date, and the stand-alone driver is only compile tested.  I will 
> update the
> ath-ct repo often as testing progresses on 4.7.
>
> If there are brave souls that want to try it out, I'd appreciate any 
> feedback.
>
> https://github.com/greearb/ath-ct
>
> See the README.txt for some details.  This will require at least some 
> familiarity
> with building kernels since I do not have any nice automation to 
> compile against
> the current running kernel yet, for instance.
>
why dont you use compat-wireless / backports as base?
so you can use your driver in any kernel version
> Thanks,
> Ben
>


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Re: Stand-alone ath10k-ct driver.

[Ben Greear]

On 06/20/2016 04:11 PM, Sebastian Gottschall wrote:
> Am 20.06.2016 um 23:52 schrieb Ben Greear:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I have made an attempt to provide a stand-alone ath10k driver that should compile
>> and work against stock 4.7 kernels.  This should provide better support for CT ath10k
>> firmware without having to apply large numbers of patches.  My 4.7 kernel has only been very lightly tested
>> to date, and the stand-alone driver is only compile tested.  I will update the
>> ath-ct repo often as testing progresses on 4.7.
>>
>> If there are brave souls that want to try it out, I'd appreciate any feedback.
>>
>> https://github.com/greearb/ath-ct
>>
>> See the README.txt for some details.  This will require at least some familiarity
>> with building kernels since I do not have any nice automation to compile against
>> the current running kernel yet, for instance.
>>
> why dont you use compat-wireless / backports as base?
> so you can use your driver in any kernel version

Just no time to deal with backports, and if I have just a stand-alone driver,
then it is easier for folks to use it in whatever kernel they already happen
to be using.  Hopefully some project that is already using a 4.7-ish backport
can compile my driver against that and have it just work, for instance.

Since I'm finding so many regressions when I rebase, and rebasing makes it almost
impossible to bisect between kernels, then maybe it would just be better if
I maintained a parallel drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k-ct/, and just applied
patches from ../ath10k/ manually on top of my own stuff.  At least that way
I could bisect regressions....

Thanks,
Ben

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