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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
