On Saturday 24 January 2009 06:04:47 Larry Finger wrote: > 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. You can still use the fwpostfix module parameter, of course. -- Greetings, Michael. -- 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
