[haiku-commits] Re: r35158 - in haiku/trunk/src/add-ons/kernel/drivers/network/wlan: iprowifi2100 iprowifi2200 iprowifi3945 iprowifi4965 marvell88w8335 ...
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:06:47 +0100
Colin Günther <coling@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Axel Dörfler schrieb:
> > Just as a thought (for future extension): wouldn't it be nicer if
> > the
> > glue naming already specifies the directory in which to search for
> Mmh, how do you mean this? Which glue naming and why should it specify
> a
> directory? The requirement for copying the settings files over to the
> said directory is set by load_driver_settings and not by the firmware
> loading code.
The firmware, not the settings file, of course.
For example, if the driver is called iprowifi3945 the firmware loading
code could automatically retrieve the firmware from the correct place
without knowing its exact name.
> > , and
> > if the firmware loading code would be smart enough to detect the
> > right/newest matching file?
> Could you eleborate the use case for detecting the newest file?
Manual/incorrect firmware updates without removing the older file. It's
not really a requirement; I just thought that you would need to iterate
over all files anyway in order to skip documentation/license files.
Bye,
Axel.
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