Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758052Ab3G3U4I (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:56:08 -0400 Received: from wolverine01.qualcomm.com ([199.106.114.254]:29596 "EHLO wolverine01.qualcomm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756925Ab3G3U4F (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:56:05 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.89,781,1367996400"; d="scan'208";a="65629833" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.89,780,1367996400"; d="scan'208";a="487786699" Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 13:56:01 -0700 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: Hector Palacios CC: Marcel Holtmann , "linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org" , "gustavo@padovan.org" , "johan.hedberg@gmail.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "surajs@qca.qualcomm.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH] bluetooth: remove wrong dependency for BT_ATH3K Message-ID: <20130730205601.GI17130@pogo> References: <1375114325-25498-1-git-send-email-hector.palacios@digi.com> <5438CD3C-E28C-485C-94B8-F743E8B13D4A@holtmann.org> <51F7722E.9050708@digi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <51F7722E.9050708@digi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Originating-IP: [172.30.39.5] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 833 Lines: 18 On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 09:58:38AM +0200, Hector Palacios wrote: > This brings an interesting question: shouldn't the firmware download > part be isolated from the USB driver? After all, I want to > communicate with a UART bluetooth chip. There are a few BT firmware upload modules (last I checked at least 2), I believe it should be possible to stuff all that code a shared module or even as FreeBSD does it -- treat fw uploading in userspace, however just keep in mind for quirks [0]. So patches welcomed. [0] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath3k#AR3011_over_USB Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/