From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:10832 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755301Ab1AaJqc (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2011 04:46:32 -0500 Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:46:25 +0100 From: Stanislaw Gruszka To: wwguy , "John W. Linville" Cc: Intel Linux Wireless , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] iwlagn: remove CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG_EXPERIMENTAL_UCODE Message-ID: <20110131094624.GA20641@redhat.com> References: <1296229671-3041-1-git-send-email-sgruszka@redhat.com> <1296229671-3041-7-git-send-email-sgruszka@redhat.com> <1296231817.7388.18.camel@wwguy-ubuntu> <20110128164136.GF2452@redhat.com> <1296256821.8832.1.camel@wwguy-ubuntu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1296256821.8832.1.camel@wwguy-ubuntu> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 03:20:21PM -0800, wwguy wrote: > > What is easiest and less time consuming: > > > > this: > > > > $ mv /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-exp.ucode /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-exp.ucode.not_use > > > > or this: > > > > $ make menuconfig > > navigate to find option and edit it > > $ make modules > > $ make modules_install > > > > ? > > > > > Also put it in Kconfig file, so it is easy for user to see they are > > > using experimental option. Agree? > > > > Not really. I believe someone who download a tarball, unpack it and copy > > files to /lib/firmware is pretty much aware what he/she is doing. > > > Agree whoever download the tarball know what he/she is doing, but I am > not fully agree the driver always use experimental uCode if it is in the > firmware directory I do not understand what for you need that, but ok, I can live with it. John, please skip this patch. Stanislaw