Re: ROM Patching (was: [PATCH] bluetooth: remove wrong dependency for BT_ATH3K)

2013-07-31 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:46 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 15:48 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > >> Neat. Perhaps we need something that we can share with 802.11 or other >> hardare I highly doubt we're the only ones patching ROM. Don't we even >> patch up core CPUs? I'm wond

Re: ROM Patching (was: [PATCH] bluetooth: remove wrong dependency for BT_ATH3K)

2013-07-30 Thread Johannes Berg
On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 15:48 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Neat. Perhaps we need something that we can share with 802.11 or other > hardare I highly doubt we're the only ones patching ROM. Don't we even > patch up core CPUs? I'm wondering if firmware_class could be expanded to > support seriali

Re: ROM Patching (was: [PATCH] bluetooth: remove wrong dependency for BT_ATH3K)

2013-07-30 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 04:55:08PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 03:48:09PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > We are planning to take one extra step and split this into a > > > mini-driver approach similar to what has been done for usbnet, but we > > > are not there

Re: ROM Patching (was: [PATCH] bluetooth: remove wrong dependency for BT_ATH3K)

2013-07-30 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 03:48:09PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > We are planning to take one extra step and split this into a > > mini-driver approach similar to what has been done for usbnet, but we > > are not there yet. > > Neat. Perhaps we need something that we can share with 802.11 or

Re: ROM Patching (was: [PATCH] bluetooth: remove wrong dependency for BT_ATH3K)

2013-07-30 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
CC'ing linux-wireless as ROM patching is mentioned and in so far as 802.11 mobile is concerned this is a pretty frequent practice there as well so figured we'd tie in the conversations. On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 03:05:18PM -0700, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Luis, > > >> This brings an interesting q

Re: [PATCH] bluetooth: remove wrong dependency for BT_ATH3K

2013-07-30 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 09:58:38AM +0200, Hector Palacios wrote: > This brings an interesting question: shouldn't the firmware download > part be isolated from the USB driver? After all, I want to > communicate with a UART bluetooth chip. There are a few BT firmware upload modules (last I checked

Re: [PATCH] bluetooth: remove wrong dependency for BT_ATH3K

2013-07-30 Thread Hector Palacios
Hi Marcel, On 07/29/2013 06:43 PM, Marcel Holtmann wrote: Hi Hector, The Atheros firmware download driver is not dependent on HCI USB driver. This driver is needed to complement any Atheros driver like BT_HCIUART_ATH3K. Signed-off-by: Hector Palacios CC: Suraj Sumangala CC: Vikram Kandukuri

Re: [PATCH] bluetooth: remove wrong dependency for BT_ATH3K

2013-07-29 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Hector, > The Atheros firmware download driver is not dependent on HCI > USB driver. This driver is needed to complement any Atheros > driver like BT_HCIUART_ATH3K. > > Signed-off-by: Hector Palacios > CC: Suraj Sumangala > CC: Vikram Kandukuri > --- > drivers/bluetooth/Kconfig | 1 - > 1 fi

[PATCH] bluetooth: remove wrong dependency for BT_ATH3K

2013-07-29 Thread Hector Palacios
The Atheros firmware download driver is not dependent on HCI USB driver. This driver is needed to complement any Atheros driver like BT_HCIUART_ATH3K. Signed-off-by: Hector Palacios CC: Suraj Sumangala CC: Vikram Kandukuri --- drivers/bluetooth/Kconfig | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) dif