On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Karl Relton<karllinuxtest.relton@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 12:17 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Karl >> Relton<karllinuxtest.relton@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Signed-Off-By: Karl Relton >> > Signed-Off-By: Mark S. Mathews >> >> The commit log is empty. Where is this driver? Is it in staging at >> least? If so does this get users of the driver a usable firmware? What >> is the future of the driver BTW? >> > > Oops - put text in wrong part of patch documentation. I can move this up > to the 'commit log' part. > > The driver is under 'staging' - maintained by Greg Koah-Hartman > > The firmware blob in 'srec' format for prism 2/3 usb adaptors. > The driver will read the srec file using a standard request_firmware() > call, and will convert it into the appropriate binary format and upload to > the adaptor. Note the processing is left to the driver (rather than > pre-compiling) because the driver needs to insert runtime data obtained from > the adaptor into the blob. The appropriate insertion locations are conveyed > by the srec format. Why all the srec->binary conversion? Doesn't this waste space on people's firmware directories? Luis -- 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
