From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
Eduardo Costa <ecosta.tmp@gmail.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: another device working
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:33:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101214213348.GD2389@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1292361712.26726.31.camel@Joe-Laptop>
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 01:21:52PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 14:41 -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> > On 12/14/2010 11:09 AM, Eduardo Costa wrote:
> > > {USB_DEVICE (0x15a9, 0x0002)}, /* Gemtek WUBI-100GW 802.11g */
> > > And about the firmware, it does work with stock p54's
> > > `2.13.24.0.lm87.arm' found on the website, so I just had to copy it to
> > > `/lib/firmware' while renaming it to `isl3887usb'.
> > Thanks for the report. I just submitted a patch to wireless-testing with a copy
> > to you for this change to be included in kernel 2.6.37, and to be backported to
> > all stable and long-term kernels.
>
> Perhaps it'd be sensible to add a
> module_param option like usb_device=x,y
> so new devices could be supported without recompilation.
Isn't that what new_id is for?
At any rate, it isn't a great substitute for a device id in the driver's table. :-)
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-14 21:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-14 17:09 another device working Eduardo Costa
2010-12-14 20:41 ` Larry Finger
2010-12-14 21:05 ` Sedat Dilek
2010-12-15 9:06 ` Johannes Berg
2010-12-15 9:42 ` Sedat Dilek
2010-12-14 21:21 ` Joe Perches
2010-12-14 21:33 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2010-12-14 21:54 ` Larry Finger
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