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From: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Cathy Luo" <cluo@marvell.com>,
	Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v3 1/2] mwifiex: add manufacturing mode support
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 16:39:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <219643fbabd740c3a8a79b8a3e99d5ad@SC-EXCH04.marvell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eg6xzeih.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com>

Hi Kalle,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kalle Valo [mailto:kvalo@codeaurora.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 10:01 PM
> To: Amitkumar Karwar
> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; Cathy Luo; Nishant Sarmukadam
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] mwifiex: add manufacturing mode support
> 
> Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi Kalle,
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Kalle Valo [mailto:kvalo@codeaurora.org]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 9:20 PM
> >> To: Amitkumar Karwar
> >> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; Cathy Luo; Nishant Sarmukadam
> >> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] mwifiex: add manufacturing mode support
> >>
> >> Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > By default normal mode is chosen when driver is loaded. This patch
> >> > adds a provision to choose manufacturing mode via module
> parameters.
> >> >
> >> > Command to load driver in manufacturing mode insmod mwifiex.ko
> >> > mfg_mode=1 and mfg_firmware=mrvl/firmware.
> >> >
> >> > Tested-by: chunfan chen <jeffc@marvell.com>
> >> > Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
> >>
> >> Why the mfg_firmware module parameter?
> >
> > It's to specify a firmware name.
> 
> Yeah, I got that. But why do you need that? Why not just hardcode the
> firmware name in the driver, which is the normal thing to do?

Ok. I will do this in updated version.

Regards,
Amitkumar

      reply	other threads:[~2016-07-13 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-13 13:48 [PATCH v3 1/2] mwifiex: add manufacturing mode support Amitkumar Karwar
2016-07-13 13:48 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] mwifiex: add hostcmd wext ioctl support Amitkumar Karwar
2016-07-13 15:14   ` Kalle Valo
2016-07-13 15:25     ` Amitkumar Karwar
2016-07-13 15:48       ` Kalle Valo
2016-07-13 15:59         ` Amitkumar Karwar
2016-07-16 14:42   ` kbuild test robot
2016-07-13 15:50 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] mwifiex: add manufacturing mode support Kalle Valo
2016-07-13 15:57   ` Amitkumar Karwar
2016-07-13 16:31     ` Kalle Valo
2016-07-13 16:39       ` Amitkumar Karwar [this message]

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