Re: compat-wireless and minstrel

Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-11-04T22:34:30Z

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Christian Lamparter
<chunkeey@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 November 2009 23:20:07 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 11:18:13PM +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote:
>> > On Wednesday 04 November 2009 22:50:46 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Adam Wozniak <awozniak@irobot.com> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > $ ls -la /lib/firmware/ar9170*
>> > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 83968 2009-10-17 15:55 /lib/firmware/ar9170-1.fw
>> > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3508 2009-10-17 15:55 /lib/firmware/ar9170-2.fw
>> > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15960 2009-10-17 15:55 /lib/firmware/ar9170.fw
>> > > >
>> > > > It is unclear to me which are actually used.
>> > >
>> > > By default the ar9170.fw is tried first, if that fails then the others
>> > > are tried. The 2-stage firmware will not be tried if your device
>> > > cannot handle it but right now only the AVM Fritz devices can't handle
>> > > the 2-stage firmware.
>> > >
>> > > Christian should we just remove 2-stage fw support?
>> >
>> > I've moved the two-stage fw into the legacy section some time ago :)
>> > Maybe a add printk?
>>
>> Oh sorry didn't notice, I meant complete removal of its support on the
>> driver though :)
> Oh, I've no problem removing two-stage fw support.

Ok cool.

> But then, I don't know much about usability :-D and I've enough of
> people banging their heads against each other.

Not sure I got this part.

Luis