[open-ath9k-htc-firmware] Add WMI_GET_BUILD_NUMBER (#18)

[Adrian Chadd]

Well, what we could do is generate two files for now - one with build
info and a checksum, and the firmware image itself.

Then we can just publish both of those.




Adrian

On 21 April 2013 10:51, Eugene Krasnikov <k.eugene.e at gmail.com> wrote:
> Completely support the idea to move build information into the binary
> but not WMI. Let me provide a patch for that and then we can see which
> solution is better.
>
> 2013/4/21 Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd at gmail.com>:
>> On 20 April 2013 23:54, Eugene Krasnikov <k.eugene.e at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Ok.
>>> Maybe date when FW was built?
>>
>> That'd be nice.
>>
>> Although thinking about it, maybe we should just throw the version id
>> into the firmware, and leave the build information out of it for now.
>>
>> Instead, we can use some TLV style format for the firmware file like
>> what Christian has done for carl9170. There's no need to waste (up to)
>> a few hundred bytes for build string information that is only used to
>> print firmware version information.
>>
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>>
>> Adrian
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> --
> Best regards,
> Eugene