Intel WiFi 5100/5300

[Rui Paulo]

On 21 Oct 2009, at 09:12, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:

> On Wednesday 21 October 2009 09:29:13 David Horn wrote:
>>>> The only new issue I have found so far is that I must manually load
>>>> iwnfw.ko before loading if_iwn.ko (the module depend used to work  
>>>> on
>>>> the in-tree driver)
>>>
>>> Hmm.. that is probably related to the rename of the firmware image,
>>> iwnfw-5000 instead of iwnfw. Is MODULE_DEPEND(iwn, iwnfw, 1, 1,  
>>> 1); an
>>> option there?
>>
>> MODULE_DEPEND(iwn, iwnfw_fw, 1, 1, 1)
>>
>> added to if_iwn.c fixes it nicely (note: iwnfw_fw not just iwnfw).   
>> It
>> turns out the original driver loaded the iwnfw.ko module as part of
>> firmware_get() since the firmware module name matched the first
>> firmware image name (see firmware.h comments).  Looking at the other
>> drivers, the other option is to break up the firmware images into
>> unique kernel modules (e.g. ral or iwi), and allow firmware_get() to
>> do the load.  I would think that this would reduce kernel memory  
>> usage
>> as well (several individual firmware modules vs all firmware images  
>> in
>> one module).  Just a thought.
>
> Any "offical" opinions on that one?  Should we break iwnfw up into  
> individual
> modules?

I believe so.

Thanks for your work. I hope this can be in HEAD soon.

Regards,
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Rui Paulo