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Date:      Sun, 5 Sep 2010 18:52:05 +0200
From:      Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@techwires.net>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Cc:        Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
Subject:   Re: mwl(4) depends on non-existant mwlfw_fw (mwlfw doesn't implement mwlfw_fw)
Message-ID:  <201009051852.05469.bschmidt@techwires.net>
In-Reply-To: <20100905165308.00000d99@unknown>
References:  <20100905165308.00000d99@unknown>

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On Sunday 05 September 2010 17:53:08 Bruce Cran wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was trying to help someone on IRC with a card that should be
> supported by the mwl(4) driver, but it seems it's broken: mwlfw(4)
> doesn't implement mwlfw_fw which if_mwl depends on
> ("MODULE_DEPEND(mwl, mwlfw_fw, 1, 1, 1);").

This is wrong. It should depend on firmware(9), which also takes care of 
loading the adequate firmware modules.

> Should it be trying to load mw88W8363fw dynamically instead?

Yes, firmware(9) does that.

> The same error appears to be in malo(4) too - and neither mwlfw(4) or
> malofw(4) are installed during an installkernel despite mwl(4) and
> malo(4) being installed.

Seems like there is a MFC missing those get installed on HEAD.

> malo(4) should also be updated to list "device malofw" in the top
> section. malofw(4) doesn't exist yet.

-- 
Bernhard



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