Thanx Christian for a valuable input. It’s a good idea to pack bitmap into the tail/header of the firmware binary to get capabilities even before fw loading. The plan is to add 8 bytes for caps and also add time stamp. Let me play around with that and provide fw and driver patch for review. 2013/4/6 Adrian Chadd <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > On 5 April 2013 22:52, Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Eugene Krasnikov <k.eugene.e@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> Good point regarding timestamp. >>> >>> When it comes to feature bitmap do you have an example of such a >>> bitmap from carl9170? Why not to rely always on major version? >> >> I'm with Christian here. In ath6kl we switched to firmware advertising >> feature capabilities and I have never looked back, it's so much easier. >> You don't need to do any mapping between firmware versions and features, >> you just deal one feature at a time. > > Ok. Well, we've got plenty of time to finalise this before things get > established. There's still plenty of tidying up to do before we start > pushing in new features. > > Thanks for all your feedback so far! > > > > Adrian -- Best regards, Eugene -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
