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From: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH] mwifiex: handle edmac vendor command
Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 07:18:40 +0000
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> From: Kalle Valo [mailto:kvalo@codeaurora.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 1:53 AM
> To: Amitkumar Karwar
> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: handle edmac vendor command
> 
> 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>
> 
> [deleted over 200 lines of unnecessary quotes]
> 
> > 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.

Ok. Thanks for your reply.
We will work to improve the patch if you have any suggestions.

Regards,
Amitkumar