On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Holger Schurig<hs4233@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> ar9271 and ar9170 seem to share a few things, one of which is >> firmware upload. ar9271's firmware upload routine was modified >> to make it match ar9170's as much as possible to share it on >> ath.ko > > Is it true that most devices which will use ath.ko won't ever use > firmware uploading? For now only usb devices require firmware loading, but so does ar6k, however I am not sure how fw upload works there so I cannot be certain the way to upload fw will be the same as with ar9170 and ar9271. > It's only a few Ath-USB devices, so maybe > you could do an ath_fw.ko for this. True, or ath_usb, or something, only thing is it might be overkill to just have 1 fw upload routine on a module for sharing. > (Somebody who's always working with embedded devices and likes to > keeps small :-) Hey thanks :) 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
