Re: libertas firmware naming confusing

Johannes Berg
2009-05-22T15:32:07Z

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On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 11:11 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:

> > 2) in the USB case change the driver to load libertas/usb8688.bin
> > instead of just usb8688.bin and move one of the versions to that
> > filename in the linux-firmware tree.
>
> Yes, this should be done. I was unsure what the policy of breaking
> firmware filenames is, however.

You can always try to load the new name, and fall back to the old name.

> > The current situation is very stupid -- users can find the firmware in a
> > proper repository but it doesn't work out of the box!
>
> Nope, though these cards aren't usually found by "normal" users anyway.

True.

> However, I'd like to preserve the the distribution of different firmware
> versions in linux-firmware, so maybe we should simply point the drivers
> at specific versions and use module parameters to change the firmware
> version?
>
> modprobe libertas_sdio fwver=8
>
> would select libertas/86xx_v8_helper.bin for example, but by default we
> use v9 or something like that. Would that be acceptable?

Sure. Might make sense to document why you would ever want to use that
though.

johannes

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