Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:24:02 +0100 | From | Joerg Albert <> | Subject | Re: [otus-devel] Release of Atheros 802.11n USB Linux driver |
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On 10/28/2008 12:35 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> This is now fixed on the master branch, also the branch "for-upstream" > does a lot of cleanup I thought you may like before stuffing it into > staging like removing all KERNEL_VERSION checks, all wireless > extensions checks, some compile warnings, removal of compat, dos2unix, > use utf-8, etc. Unfortunately this still requires a specific version > of wpa_supplicant but it seems it works. Not sure what bars you have > for staging at this point.
I was a bit disappointed to find binary-only firmware inside the driver (HalPlus/OTUS_FB50/{hpfwbu,hpfwuinit}.c which is downloaded into the device during startup (initially thought this to be a complete OpenSource driver :-(
Unless the attitude towards binary chunks inside the Linux kernel have changed, I guess these should be moved into userspace using the firmware_class driver to access it.
/Joerg
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