Intel WiFi 5100/5300

[Bernhard Schmidt]

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?


-- 
Bernhard