Re: compat-wireless and minstrel

Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-11-04T22:20:02Z

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 :)

Luis