I see. Being a Bluegiga customer, I've got the driver v 5.1.0 and I see now that the user space bits have the right interface. Few observations: 1) This driver appears to be for UF7xxx and UF8xxx. Mine is UF6xxx (6026 to be specific), so I'll have to stick to the official CSR driver. 2) the API that is being used by user space bits in this driver is what CSR calls Synergy. It is a proprietary layer on top of already proprietary driver. The drivers that I used before (7.x) do not require Synergy. They are significantly more OSS friendly. 3) as far as I can tell, user space components at the bare minimum manage firmware loading and driver restarts on failure - the kind of things that can and should be done in kernel and perhaps wpa supplicant. Given that CSR drivers are closed source maintenance nightmare, I wonder if someone would be brave enough to revamp this driver But for now thank you for the hint - at least I was able to confirm that I won't be able to use the driver from staging tree, so no wasting more time Best regards, Alex Feinman On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Lauri Hintsala <lauri.hintsala@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > The driver is based on CSR's Unifi 5.1.0 WiFi driver and it launches > proprietary user space helper application as Alex said. > > Unfortunately we are allowed to share user space binaries only for Bluegiga > customers who are using our WiFi products. I think the only way to get > proprietary user space application is to ask it directly from CSR. > > Best regards, > Lauri Hintsala > > > > On 02/13/2013 10:02 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote: >> >> No idea. One of the bluegiga people might know. I've added them to >> the CC list. >> >> regards, >> dan carpenter >> >> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:49:29AM -0800, Alex Feinman wrote: >>> >>> Greetings, >>> >>> It was suggested to me that this forum is a right place to ask my >>> question.I'm trying to include the CSR WLAN driver from 3.7.7 stable >>> into my kernel, but cannot figure out where to get the matching user >>> space components such as unififw and unifi_helper. The ones from the >>> CSR proprietary driver package use different device interface and do >>> not work (I've tried unifi 7.x) >>> >>> Would appreciate some pointers >>> >>> Best regards >>> >>> Alex Feinman >>> _______________________________________________ >>> devel mailing list >>> devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
