From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:48044 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753051AbZEVPcH (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 May 2009 11:32:07 -0400 Subject: Re: libertas firmware naming confusing From: Johannes Berg To: Dan Williams Cc: Andrey Yurovsky , David Woodhouse , linux-wireless In-Reply-To: <1243005119.2461.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1242979352.4212.27.camel@johannes.local> <1243005119.2461.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-FOXk0BThhnJ2D4sBRlBz" Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 17:31:57 +0200 Message-Id: <1243006317.4606.27.camel@johannes.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-FOXk0BThhnJ2D4sBRlBz Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > 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! >=20 > 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? >=20 > modprobe libertas_sdio fwver=3D8 >=20 > 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 --=-FOXk0BThhnJ2D4sBRlBz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAABAgAGBQJKFsVpAAoJEODzc/N7+QmaNPAP/1/NnRrPQA59Y6ezMqgRNb1p jG7dMb2UBYx3YjZNDcj/oTg2XS6zyj4tZl9iR1E6EVi5+cS4LMYXZofGLMNJnzgb orKCnFPBRKJmzKPH0tFtmbHcGGIby1n1VwdkHlKPsuiQfbmtC+6+bRTQzeQNT8ix UVvhWWJ2WcCyQxN8ofUaY2XjdMpwwvTKSDJJKvsHS2Ksktgi8TaL8IyLgYTIkcDe QBknC9yGjmzpny23RYgb05ztzxzWZbElXcmqSBqEfx1/mEbx2gKqTOOWUvJJSh0V Vd4nTTLe2oUl6tchgAki9wr1GL2TmGSm+ON2PvKTAVINCuwOtVZb7/NJDHXOo2H2 P8tYFo+0mzON0D3IrT8qWn0luj2mCTutFmYGyhOVZUvAkIBYlysX0+Fflh2rL+GL BlpSrd56qlpXV9Al/Q9JYxwBZ3iCCulhiBmMnqMF1IOy9enqnuqPTuINF5btiUof 7XrpHOBfFK/izhty/bFZ/rEJ7rvUQ4jIs2vRa6Gjq9eFzT2cJ6Xh08Mcxjs/7Vp9 ySaMkLVPFVx94qQLrKW3n2Is16IwdpdcJ9GX3XqAw7VOU1Dc+7b6Bu/KtI85c0qH dAchSWUTUOr+ARmLl9AK0ERmJyMHvVxl6bAGWknOYjDxEGgZNIGegzCp4WBf5iqC LQzFIknYylEZybnyd6iX =xdoe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-FOXk0BThhnJ2D4sBRlBz--