Messages in this thread | | | From | "Luis R. Rodriguez" <> | Date | Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:41:56 -0800 | Subject | Where to report firmware bugs |
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We now have open firmware for at least one wireless device upstream, the ar9170 device firmware [1]. Granted no specific point releases have been made yet but it should be possible in the future to do so. I'd also like to see more open firmware in the future. I also just reviewed some simple driver for our bluetooth devices, the ath3k driver and it seems clear to me in these cases that firmware will do everything and chances are the actual driver won't have much bugs.
So -- for the cases of open firmware, or in cases where we have firmware where it does most of the job of supporting the device where should we send users to report bugs to? The kernel bugzilla at least does not seem to have a section for firmware? Should it?
In the case of iwl3945 it seems users report bugs directly on the kernel.org and refer the driver directly, we'll follow that for now, but for cases where the firmware *is* the issue it would seem easier to be able to search for issues specifically for firmware.
Thoughts?
[1] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ar9170.fw [2] http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13799
Luis
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