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Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: add support for BCM4366E chipset

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On 3 April 2018 at 13:24, Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 4/3/2018 12:17 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>>
>> On 3 April 2018 at 10:22, Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>
>
> [...]
>
>>>
>>>
>>> My first reaction to this email needed to some cooldown time, but managed
>>> to
>>> swallow it.
>>
>>
>> I'm sorry you keep reacting to my e-mails/patches that way. I can't
>> see how my e-mail was offensive in any way. I assure I didn't mean it
>> to be.
>
>
> I can not really say what it is. Anyway it is my fault and have to work on
> it.
>
> [...]
>
>>> I actually had a couple of issues with the patch and did not
>>> want to waste Dan's time when there was a patch ready. I did not want to
>>> add
>>> another device because we are still in the process of releasing the
>>> firmware
>>> for it. Fiddling with radar detection causing the delay of that.
>>
>>
>> It's something that I think was never a problem in the past. There is
>> e.g. support for 4366c0 support in the brcmfmac without
>> brcmfmac4366c-pcie.bin officially released.
>
>
> My rule of thumb is to get the firmware released before/when the driver
> patch hits mainline. However, sometimes it blows up in my face. Like with
> the 4366c0. We had to add a new feature to the firmware to get an ok, which
> caused the delay. Hopefully, I can get it out soon.

Sounds great, thanks, I keep by fingers crossed :)

-- 
Rafał




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