[Maverick linux-firmware] Add link for RTL8192SU firmware

[Stefan Bader]

On 02/18/2011 11:26 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 18:00 +0100, Stefan Bader wrote:
>> As I was able to test with some hardware in my hands, it seems that
>> the r8192s_u module will work just fine with the firmware in RTL8192SE.
>> So adding a simple link makes the hardware work out of the box.
>> Unfortunately I could not verify whether the same is true for Natty as
>> that hardware then uses the r8712u module which has its firmware built
>> into the kernel driver.
> [...]
> 

Thanks for the hints. I just did a quick check how we are affected by that. At
the moment those seem to be in linux-next only, so I would not expect this
change to make it into 2.6.38. The firmware file is in the linux-firmware
upstream tree and has made it into the Natty version of linux-firmware. So I
think we should be safe in both cases (in kernel version and newer version
backported by lbm).

-Stefan

> These commits add firmware loading support to r8172u:
> 
> commit b54a28a418b2730bf61554864fee3fb24f79e182
> Author: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
> Date:   Fri Jan 14 15:02:18 2011 -0600
> 
>     staging: r8712u: Firmware changes for driver
>     
>     * select FW_LOADER in Kconfig - From: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h at gmx.de>
>     * declare MODULE_FIRMWARE for r8712u and change to correct directory
>     * delete 10K line farray.h containing internal firmware
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
>     Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at suse.de>
> 
> commit c84a7028cc4957e39af5ed8b1a3c8acda24a2a89
> Author: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
> Date:   Fri Jan 14 14:54:18 2011 -0600
> 
>     staging: r8712u: Switch driver to use external firmware from linux-firmware
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
>     Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at suse.de>
> 
> The firmware image it uses is "rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin".
> 
> Ben.
>