Thanks David. I appreciate your efforts to contribute for WILC driver. On 22/02/21 5:52 am, David Mosberger-Tang wrote: > > So, I'd like to provide some patches for the wilc driver, but I'm > unclear what the most effective way to go about this is. To submit the patches for wilc1000 mainlined driver, please send the patches to linux-wireless mailing list. Have a look at *submitting patch* section in wireless wiki to know about the patch submission process. Please refer the below link: https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches > > The driver in mainline (driver/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000) only > seems to support WILC1000 (not WILC3000) and uses firmware: > > atmel/wilc1000_wifi_firmware-1.bin > > whereas the linux-at91 driver (driver/staging/wilc1000) supports both > WILC1000 and WILC3000 and uses firmware > > mch/wilc1000_wifi_firmware.bin > > (for WILC1000). The WILC1000 15.4 firmware(wilc1000_wifi_firmware-1.bin) is available at linux-firmware repo. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git Please use this firmware for your testing. > > For the hardware I have (embedded system with WILC1000/SPI), the > mainline driver doesn't load, whereas the driver from linux-at91 does > load and work(mostly). > What error are you getting during driver loading. Could you please check if FW file is available at "atmel/wilc1000_wifi_firmware-1.bin" path. > I'd really like to work off of mainline since it's much easier to track > things with a repository that's updated frequently, but it looks to me > like the mainline may be missing a lot of code that's already in > linux-at91. > > What am I supposed to do? The mainlined driver only support for WILC1000. WILC3000 chip(Wifi+BT combo) support needs to be added. Earlier the wilc driver was part of staging so adding new features were not encouraged but now new features are welcome. We need to port different features to the mainlined driver. Recently we have added the support for WMM[1]. Similarly we need to add other features(like wilc3000 support) to the mainline driver by following kernel development guideline. 1. https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg205899.html Regards, Ajay
