On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:20:55AM -0800, Alex Feinman wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >Really? I thought that these applications were able to be downloaded by >> >> >anyone. If this isn't the case, then I'm going to have to delete the >> >> >kernel code as it's pretty pointless to be there because no one can >> >> >actually use it :( >> >> >> >> The driver package is available from our tech forum. >> > >> > Do you have direct link to it that we can put in the TODO file in the >> > kernel? >> > >> >> The tech forum is password protected, so no direct link ATM. In fact >> wasn't it stated earlier in the thread that: >> >> > 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. > > I was hoping otherwise. If this is true, I'm going to have to delete > the driver as-is, because it really can't be used by anyone. > >> In any case, there are larger problems. The driver internally talks to >> the chip e.g. to download the firmware patch. When running against >> UF6026 (a fairly common 2 year old n-wireless core from CSR), it >> complains: >> UniFi f/w protocol major version (8) is different from driver (v9.1). >> Three things about this: >> 1) You'd think the f/w protocol would be at least slightly >> backwards-compatible (sigh). > > Agreed. > >> 2) The driver probe should check for an unsupported hwids and blacklist them. > > True, care to write a patch for this? I'll give it a shot. Ordered some hardware so perhaps in a couple of weeks or so. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
