Return-path: Received: from mail-qc0-f174.google.com ([209.85.216.174]:55134 "EHLO mail-qc0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756006Ab2D0KMO convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2012 06:12:14 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: sedat.dilek@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20120427095842.GW3157@wantstofly.org> References: <1335517711-6522-1-git-send-email-sedat.dilek@gmail.com> <20120427091405.GS3157@wantstofly.org> <20120427094007.GU3157@wantstofly.org> <20120427094637.GV3157@wantstofly.org> <20120427095842.GW3157@wantstofly.org> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:12:13 +0200 Message-ID: (sfid-20120427_121242_059184_916C3C1D) Subject: Re: [PATCH] mwl8k: Add 0x2a02 PCI device-id (Marvell 88W8361) From: Sedat Dilek To: Lennert Buytenhek Cc: "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:56:00AM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote: > >> >> >> Are you planning to or even working on support (for) 8361 devices? >> >> > >> >> > I don't have any such plans, and I don't know of anyone who does. >> >> >> >> Does 8361 require firmware support? >> > >> > What do you mean by that? >> >> IIRC ath5k for example needs no external firmware file. > > The 8361 requires firmware to be loaded into it before it'll do > anything useful. > > >> >> Does a firmware file exist (name?)? >> > >> > There's firmware for the 8361 out there, however, that version of >> > the firmware implements a firmware API that is different from the >> > one that mwl8k currently implements. >> > >> > You could add 8361 support to mwl8k, but then you'd have to go over >> > all the firmware command invocations in mwl8k and make sure that they >> > will work on the 8361 firmware that you're trying to support as well. >> >> Without having a 8361 this will be even harder to walk through. >> >> Anyway, thanks for your detailed explanations. >> >> What's the alternative for such affected users? >> Use ndis-wrapper? > > I'm not sure.  I've never tried to get a 8361 work under Linux. Just found on [1] this same wrong patch in [2] :-). Dunno if [3] worked and from where they have stolen fw-files. - Sedat - [1] https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/7209 [2] https://dev.openwrt.org/attachment/ticket/7209/mwl8k_fix_pci_id.patch [3] https://dev.openwrt.org/attachment/ticket/7209/mwl8k_8361p.patch