From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from bu3sch.de ([62.75.166.246]:41998 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750762AbZAXF66 (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:58:58 -0500 From: Michael Buesch To: Larry Finger Subject: Re: [PATCH] b43: Automatically probe for opensource firmware Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:58:35 +0100 Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: <200901232121.52012.mb@bu3sch.de> <497AA16F.30409@lwfinger.net> In-Reply-To: <497AA16F.30409@lwfinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200901240658.35490.mb@bu3sch.de> (sfid-20090124_065905_201700_CCDDD7FF) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Saturday 24 January 2009 06:04:47 Larry Finger wrote: > Michael Buesch wrote: > > First probe for proprietary firmware and then probe for opensource firmware. > > This way around it's a win-win situation. > > 1) If proprietary fw is available, it will work. > > 2) If opensource firmware is available, but no proprietary (Distros can only ship open fw) > > it might work. > > 3) If both open and proprietary are available, it will work, because it selects > > the proprietary. We currently don't prefer the open fw in this case, because it doesn't > > work on all devices. It would introduce a regression otherwise. > > > > The remaining FIXMEs in this patch are harmless, because they only matter on multiband > > devices, which are not implemented yet anyway. > > > > Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch > > > > --- > > > > John, please queue for the next feature round. > > Acked-by: Larry Finger > > I made one temporary change to search for open-source firmware before > the proprietary version because I boot kernels that are not changed to > handle the o-s version, but still want to test when I can. > > I understand and approve of your logic - it just doesn't fit my > current agenda. You can still use the fwpostfix module parameter, of course. -- Greetings, Michael.