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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: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 11:13:54 +0000
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> From: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-wireless-
> owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Amitkumar Karwar
> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2016 4:51 PM
> To: Kalle Valo
> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: RE: [PATCH] mwifiex: handle edmac vendor command
> 
> Hi Kalle,
> 
> > 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.
> >
> 
> Did you get a chance to check this patch?
> Please let me know if you have any suggestions.
> 

Any suggestions for a mechanism to download vendor specific command to firmware?

Regards,
Amitkumar Karwar