Return-path: Received: from mail-iw0-f180.google.com ([209.85.223.180]:44040 "EHLO mail-iw0-f180.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932939AbZKDVvB convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2009 16:51:01 -0500 Received: by iwn10 with SMTP id 10so5306544iwn.4 for ; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:51:06 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4AF1F653.4000905@irobot.com> References: <4AF0D54D.4090303@irobot.com> <200911041653.33737.chunkeey@googlemail.com> <200911042242.48991.chunkeey@googlemail.com> <4AF1F653.4000905@irobot.com> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 13:50:46 -0800 Message-ID: <43e72e890911041350i75108dc3g454ab8577d8abacd@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: compat-wireless and minstrel To: Adam Wozniak Cc: Christian Lamparter , Derek Smithies , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, nbd@openwrt.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Adam Wozniak wrote: > > $ ls -la /lib/firmware/ar9170* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 83968 2009-10-17 15:55 /lib/firmware/ar9170-1.fw > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3508 2009-10-17 15:55 /lib/firmware/ar9170-2.fw > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15960 2009-10-17 15:55 /lib/firmware/ar9170.fw > > It is unclear to me which are actually used. By default the ar9170.fw is tried first, if that fails then the others are tried. The 2-stage firmware will not be tried if your device cannot handle it but right now only the AVM Fritz devices can't handle the 2-stage firmware. Christian should we just remove 2-stage fw support? Luis