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From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] ar9170: 1-stage firmware support / AVM fritz
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On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 08:11:48AM -0700, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Luis,
> 
> > This series now works for me on my WNDA31000, it took a newer shiny
> > 1-stage firmware to work. I'll push the firmware into linux-firmware
> > next.
> >
> > Should work with the AVM Fritz devices now, haven't tested it but
> > I think it should work.
> 
> I happened to have one of these AVM devices. With ar9170.fw firmware it
> does work fine with the other ones it doesn't.

Excellent, that was the idea behind the patch, to enable these
devices. Thanks for testing.

> The ar9170.fw is still not in linux-firmware.git, any reason for that?

Yes, the patch I sent to David has some funk as objcopy to ihex seems
to have some trailing white space. I sent a new patch to him without
the ihex file though.

> Also since ar9170-1.fw and ar9170-2.fw are not working at all,

They work, they won't work for the AVM device though.

> we better
> not even try and give the user a crypted error message that the device
> is in a bad state. Just printk that the firmware might be too old.

Agreed, but as I sent the patch in we *require* the 1-stage firmware
for the AVM devices, if that is not present we should be bailing out.
Is that not what happens?

  Luis