Stand-alone ath10k-ct driver.
Hello!
I have made an attempt to provide a stand-alone ath10k driver that should compile
and work against stock 4.7 kernels. This should provide better support for CT ath10k firmware without having to apply large numbers of patches. My 4.7 kernel has only been very lightly tested to date, and the stand-alone driver is only compile tested. I will update the
ath-ct repo often as testing progresses on 4.7.
If there are brave souls that want to try it out, I'd appreciate any feedback.
https://github.com/greearb/ath-ct
See the README.txt for some details. This will require at least some familiarity with building kernels since I do not have any nice automation to compile against the current running kernel yet, for instance.
Thanks,
Ben
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Ben Greear <[email protected]> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
Am 20.06.2016 um 23:52 schrieb Ben Greear:
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Hello!
I have made an attempt to provide a stand-alone ath10k driver that should compile
and work against stock 4.7 kernels. This should provide better support for CT ath10k firmware without having to apply large numbers of patches. My 4.7 kernel has only been very lightly tested to date, and the stand-alone driver is only compile tested. I will update the
ath-ct repo often as testing progresses on 4.7.
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If there are brave souls that want to try it out, I'd appreciate any feedback.
https://github.com/greearb/ath-ct
See the README.txt for some details. This will require at least some familiarity with building kernels since I do not have any nice automation to compile against the current running kernel yet, for instance.
why dont you use compat-wireless / backports as base? so you can use your driver in any kernel version
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Thanks,
Ben
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Am 20.06.2016 um 23:52 schrieb Ben Greear:
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Hello!
I have made an attempt to provide a stand-alone ath10k driver that should compile
and work against stock 4.7 kernels. This should provide better support for CT ath10k firmware without having to apply large numbers of patches. My 4.7 kernel has only been very lightly tested to date, and the stand-alone driver is only compile tested. I will update the
ath-ct repo often as testing progresses on 4.7.If there are brave souls that want to try it out, I'd appreciate any feedback.
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https://github.com/greearb/ath-ct
See the README.txt for some details. This will require at least some familiarity with building kernels since I do not have any nice automation to compile against the current running kernel yet, for instance.
why dont you use compat-wireless / backports as base? so you can use your driver in any kernel version
Just no time to deal with backports, and if I have just a stand-alone driver, then it is easier for folks to use it in whatever kernel they already happen to be using. Hopefully some project that is already using a 4.7-ish backport can compile my driver against that and have it just work, for instance.
Since I'm finding so many regressions when I rebase, and rebasing makes it almost impossible to bisect between kernels, then maybe it would just be better if I maintained a parallel drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k-ct/, and just applied patches from ../ath10k/ manually on top of my own stuff. At least that way I could bisect regressions....
Thanks,
Ben
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Ben Greear <[email protected]> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com _______________________________________________ ath10k mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k