From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-iw0-f204.google.com ([209.85.223.204]:63656 "EHLO mail-iw0-f204.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751010AbZH1QXv convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:23:51 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200908280934.53681.hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> References: <43e72e890908271943s6dca1257g1f1e56d0347cc21d@mail.gmail.com> <200908280934.53681.hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:23:33 -0700 Message-ID: <43e72e890908280923v376b5eeaub542201217f02fba@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: ar9271 mailing list and driver project page To: Holger Schurig Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org, linux-wireless , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH , Christoph Hellwig Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Holger Schurig wrote: >> ar9271 and ar9170 seem to share a few things, one of which is >> firmware upload. ar9271's firmware upload routine was modified >> to make it match ar9170's as much as possible to share it on >> ath.ko > > Is it true that most devices which will use ath.ko won't ever use > firmware uploading? For now only usb devices require firmware loading, but so does ar6k, however I am not sure how fw upload works there so I cannot be certain the way to upload fw will be the same as with ar9170 and ar9271. > It's only a few Ath-USB devices, so maybe > you could do an ath_fw.ko for this. True, or ath_usb, or something, only thing is it might be overkill to just have 1 fw upload routine on a module for sharing. > (Somebody who's always working with embedded devices and likes to > keeps small :-) Hey thanks :) Luis