On Monday, April 18, 2016 06:45:09 PM Kalle Valo wrote: > Lauri Kasanen <c...@gmx.com> writes: > > > The previous text was confusing, leading readers to think this > > driver was a duplicate, and so didn't need to be enabled. > > > > After the removal of the older staging driver, this is the only > > driver in mainline for these devices. > > > > Signed-off-by: Lauri Kasanen <c...@gmx.com> > > --- > > v2: Remove the mention of the previous driver, suggested by Christian. > > > > drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/Kconfig | 8 +++----- > > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/Kconfig > > b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/Kconfig > > index 1a796e5..2e34bae 100644 > > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/Kconfig > > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/Kconfig > > @@ -5,12 +5,10 @@ config CARL9170 > > select FW_LOADER > > select CRC32 > > help > > - This is another driver for the Atheros "otus" 802.11n USB devices. > > + This is the mainline driver for the Atheros "otus" 802.11n USB > > devices. > > > > - This driver provides more features than the original, > > - but it needs a special firmware (carl9170-1.fw) to do that. > > - > > - The firmware can be downloaded from our wiki here: > > + It needs a special firmware (carl9170-1.fw), which can be downloaded > > + from our wiki here: > > <http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/carl9170> > > Why even mention anything about a "special firmware" as the firmware is > already available from linux-firmware.git? Yes and no. 1.9.6 is in linux-firmware.git. I've tried to add 1.9.9 too but that failed. <http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/114639>
> That's default location for all firmware images and I think most, if not all, > distros should have it available. So wouldn't it be better not to mention > anything about firmware at all? Sure, but this could be a different patch then. I think Intel devices (iwlwifi, iwlegacy and ipw2x00) have a similar text about "download firmware from this device from our homepage here" too. So if we want, we can remove them altogether? Regards, Christian
