On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 18:23 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote: > Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > >> production line tests and pushing the calibration data from user > >> space. > > > > When is the calibration data required > > When we boot the firmware, that is during interface up. > > > and is it likely to change at runtime? > > It's device specific. Each device is calibrated in the factory and the > calibration data is stored to a special partition in the device. By "special partition", you mean a filesystem? Or something else? > > What I really mean is, if the calibration data isn't required to > > change while the interface is up, maybe use request_firmware() and > > load it at device open time or something? > > request_firmware() has access only to the rootfs which the user can > flash anytime he wants. So we would have to create the calibration > file during every boot, or something like that. I guess it's doable > but a bit ugly. Yeah, that's somewhat ugly then. Dan -- 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
