[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCHv3] wifi: Introduce 802.11ac support

[Jonas Gorski]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Kalle Valo <kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com> wrote:
> (...)
> But we should try ways to mitigate the problem of having two firmware
> branches. For example, should we have a module parameter in ath10k to
> choose which firmware to use? Or is there even a way to do that
> automatically based on what interfaces are used?

I don't know if this is a good way to do it, but this is exactly what
mwl8k does. They have dedicated AP and STA firmwares, and reload if
needed when adding the apprpriate interfaces. See
<http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c#L4663>
for the code.


Regards
Jonas