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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