Return-path: Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:44930 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751962AbYJ1NYJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:24:09 -0400 Message-ID: <49071272.8050700@gmx.de> (sfid-20081028_142415_897587_D8136567) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:24:02 +0100 From: Joerg Albert MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Greg KH CC: "otus-devel@lists.madwifi-project.org" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , Linux-Kernel , Luis Rodriguez , Johannes Berg Subject: Re: [otus-devel] Release of Atheros 802.11n USB Linux driver References: <43e72e890810211904x7bd243dem68dfcfe7a795ec6f@mail.gmail.com> <20081022065045.GA2400@kroah.com> <20081023062655.GA8039@kroah.com> <20081023111103.GB5979@tesla> <43e72e890810271635i5b6dd6e4ua06b48e624991435@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43e72e890810271635i5b6dd6e4ua06b48e624991435@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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