netdev - Re: [PATCH] mwl8k: Add 0x2a02 PCI device-id (Marvell 88W8361)

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Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:56:00 +0200
From:	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...glemail.com>
To:	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>
Cc:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mwl8k: Add 0x2a02 PCI device-id (Marvell 88W8361)

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Lennert Buytenhek
<buytenh@...tstofly.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:42:54AM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
>
>> >> Are you planning to or even working on support (for) 8361 devices?
>> >
>> > I don't have any such plans, and I don't know of anyone who does.
>>
>> Does 8361 require firmware support?
>
> What do you mean by that?
>

IIRC ath5k for example needs no external firmware file.

>
>> Does a firmware file exist (name?)?
>
> There's firmware for the 8361 out there, however, that version of
> the firmware implements a firmware API that is different from the
> one that mwl8k currently implements.
>
> You could add 8361 support to mwl8k, but then you'd have to go over
> all the firmware command invocations in mwl8k and make sure that they
> will work on the 8361 firmware that you're trying to support as well.

Without having a 8361 this will be even harder to walk through.

Anyway, thanks for your detailed explanations.

What's the alternative for such affected users?
Use ndis-wrapper?

- Sedat -
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