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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: handle edmac vendor command
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Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com> writes:

> Hi Kalle,
> 	
>> From: Amitkumar Karwar [mailto:akarwar@marvell.com]
>> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 9:28 PM
>> To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
>> Cc: Jeff CF Chen; Amitkumar Karwar
>> Subject: [PATCH] mwifiex: handle edmac vendor command
>> 
>> From: chunfan chen <jeffc@marvell.com>
>> 
>> Userspace can configure edmac values through a custom vendor command.
>> They will be used by hardware for adaptivity.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: chunfan chen <jeffc@marvell.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>

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> This patch seems to have deferred. We basically want a way to download
> a vendor specific configuration to our firmware. Do you have any
> suggestions on how can achieve this in better way?
>
> I can see below iw command suits our requirement.
>
> iw dev <devname> vendor send <oui> <subcmd> <filename|-|hex data>
>
> Please guide.

It was deferred because use of the nl80211 vendor interface (which I
don't think belong to upstream drivers). I'll take a look at this patch
in detail after the merge window.

-- 
Kalle Valo