On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 11:11 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > > 2) in the USB case change the driver to load libertas/usb8688.bin > > instead of just usb8688.bin and move one of the versions to that > > filename in the linux-firmware tree. > > Yes, this should be done. I was unsure what the policy of breaking > firmware filenames is, however. You can always try to load the new name, and fall back to the old name. > > The current situation is very stupid -- users can find the firmware in a > > proper repository but it doesn't work out of the box! > > Nope, though these cards aren't usually found by "normal" users anyway. True. > However, I'd like to preserve the the distribution of different firmware > versions in linux-firmware, so maybe we should simply point the drivers > at specific versions and use module parameters to change the firmware > version? > > modprobe libertas_sdio fwver=8 > > would select libertas/86xx_v8_helper.bin for example, but by default we > use v9 or something like that. Would that be acceptable? Sure. Might make sense to document why you would ever want to use that though. johannes
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