Return-path: Received: from mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.49]:6632 "EHLO mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754054AbZF3VJj (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:09:39 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add prism 2/3 usb adaptor firmware for use with staging/wlan-ng driver. From: Karl Relton To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <43e72e890906301217m2dec7bfaqea0472907531d21d@mail.gmail.com> References: <1246388712.4949.52.camel@localhost> <43e72e890906301217m2dec7bfaqea0472907531d21d@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:09:39 +0100 Message-Id: <1246396179.4949.76.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 12:17 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Karl > Relton wrote: > > Signed-Off-By: Karl Relton > > Signed-Off-By: Mark S. Mathews > > The commit log is empty. Where is this driver? Is it in staging at > least? If so does this get users of the driver a usable firmware? What > is the future of the driver BTW? > Oops - put text in wrong part of patch documentation. I can move this up to the 'commit log' part. The driver is under 'staging' - maintained by Greg Koah-Hartman The firmware blob in 'srec' format for prism 2/3 usb adaptors. The driver will read the srec file using a standard request_firmware() call, and will convert it into the appropriate binary format and upload to the adaptor. Note the processing is left to the driver (rather than pre-compiling) because the driver needs to insert runtime data obtained from the adaptor into the blob. The appropriate insertion locations are conveyed by the srec format. Karl