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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
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 19:31:02 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eg6xzeih.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2dcba20e490840918e80c4f91a250739@SC-EXCH04.marvell.com> (Amitkumar Karwar's message of "Wed, 13 Jul 2016 15:57:15 +0000")

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?

-- 
Kalle Valo

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-13 16:31 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 [this message]
2016-07-13 16:39       ` Amitkumar Karwar

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