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Date:	Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:20:07 -0500
From:	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>
To:	Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net>
Cc:	libertas-dev@...ts.infradead.org, cjb@...top.org,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Daniel Drake <dsd@...top.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libertas: prioritize usb8388_v5.bin firmware on OLPC
 machines

On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 11:25 -0700, Andres Salomon wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:17:23 -0500
> Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 13:59 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote:
> > > On 31 July 2011 08:05, Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net> wrote:
> > > > Note: I've not tested this out yet on an XO-1.  I'll do that
> > > > after some feedback regarding the matching linux-firmware pull
> > > > request.  This should address dsd's concern about changing the
> > > > loading order of the firmware.
> > > 
> > > That indeed was a concern, but only until Dan Williams and Chris
> > > pointed out that OLPC is the only usb8388 user. With that in mind, I
> > > am in agreement with them that simply putting usb8388_olpc_v5.bin
> > > (or whatever name is chosen) at the top of the firmware loading
> > > list is the best option.
> > 
> > Yeah, patches for that would be immediately acked.
> > 
> 
> What's your opinion on overwriting usb8388_v5.bin with OLPC's version,
> versus having both a usb8388_v5.bin and a usb8388_olpc_v5.bin?

I'd slightly prefer to keep them separate, but I don't really care that
much.  Whatever you'd like to do here is fine.

Dan


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