Re: [PATCH] b43: Automatically probe for opensource firmware

[Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>]

Michael Buesch wrote:
> First probe for proprietary firmware and then probe for opensource firmware.
> This way around it's a win-win situation.
> 1) If proprietary fw is available, it will work.
> 2) If opensource firmware is available, but no proprietary (Distros can only ship open fw)
>    it might work.
> 3) If both open and proprietary are available, it will work, because it selects
>    the proprietary. We currently don't prefer the open fw in this case, because it doesn't
>    work on all devices. It would introduce a regression otherwise.
> 
> The remaining FIXMEs in this patch are harmless, because they only matter on multiband
> devices, which are not implemented yet anyway.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
> 
> ---
> 
> John, please queue for the next feature round.

Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>

I made one temporary change to search for open-source firmware before
the proprietary version because I boot kernels that are not changed to
handle the o-s version, but still want to test when I can.

I understand and approve of your logic - it just doesn't fit my
current agenda.

Larry