Michael Buesch wrote: > First probe for proprietary firmware and then probe for opensource firmware. > This way around it's a win-win situation. > 1) If proprietary fw is available, it will work. > 2) If opensource firmware is available, but no proprietary (Distros can only ship open fw) > it might work. > 3) If both open and proprietary are available, it will work, because it selects > the proprietary. We currently don't prefer the open fw in this case, because it doesn't > work on all devices. It would introduce a regression otherwise. > > The remaining FIXMEs in this patch are harmless, because they only matter on multiband > devices, which are not implemented yet anyway. > > Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > John, please queue for the next feature round. Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> I made one temporary change to search for open-source firmware before the proprietary version because I boot kernels that are not changed to handle the o-s version, but still want to test when I can. I understand and approve of your logic - it just doesn't fit my current agenda. Larry -- 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
