On Saturday 24 January 2009 06:04:47 Larry Finger wrote:
> Michael Buesch wrote:
> > First probe for proprietary firmware and then probe for opensource firmware.
> > This way around it's a win-win situation.
> > 1) If proprietary fw is available, it will work.
> > 2) If opensource firmware is available, but no proprietary (Distros can 
> > only ship open fw)
> >    it might work.
> > 3) If both open and proprietary are available, it will work, because it 
> > selects
> >    the proprietary. We currently don't prefer the open fw in this case, 
> > because it doesn't
> >    work on all devices. It would introduce a regression otherwise.
> > 
> > The remaining FIXMEs in this patch are harmless, because they only matter 
> > on multiband
> > devices, which are not implemented yet anyway.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <[email protected]>
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> > John, please queue for the next feature round.
> 
> Acked-by: Larry Finger <[email protected]>
> 
> I made one temporary change to search for open-source firmware before
> the proprietary version because I boot kernels that are not changed to
> handle the o-s version, but still want to test when I can.
> 
> I understand and approve of your logic - it just doesn't fit my
> current agenda.

You can still use the fwpostfix module parameter, of course.

-- 
Greetings, Michael.
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