Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 23:53:19 +0200
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
To: Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] wl1251: Use request_firmware_prefer_user() for
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On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 10:41:08AM +0200, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
> On 16-5-2017 1:13, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > Since no upstream delta is needed for firmwared I'd like to first encourage
> > evaluating the above. While distributions don't carry it yet that may be seen as
> > an issue but since what we are looking for are corner cases, only folks needing
> > to deploy a specific solution would need it or a custom proprietary solution.
> 
> Ok. I will go try and run firmwared in OpenWrt on a router platform.
> Have to steal one from a colleague :-p Will study firmwared.

Arend, curious how this effort goes. Its important to me as we know then that
if this works its a good approach to recommend moving forward which should also
prove less complex than that soup we had with the custom fallback stuff.

  Luis