Re: [PATCH 2/2] at76c50x-usb: set firmware and hardware version in wiphy

[Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com> wrote:
> So ath9k and ath5k keep their own strings for such things, to name the
> MAC/Baseband, and then the radio revision and subrevisions... What I'd
> like to see documented on the kdoc for hw_version is what exactly is
> expected to be put there.
>
> The hw_version and fw_version seem to be helpful in providing more
> information to userspace which you would not typically see -- things
> you would only tend to see on a dmesg output so at least for that
> purpose I think its nice. For example lspci won't really tell you the
> exact hardware type on atheros chipsets, so this seems nice.

Exactly, that's my idea here. And with this the information should be
easy to show in UI.

> Anyway, getting some more clarification on the docs would be nice.

I will definitely add documentation. I meant to send these patches RFC
for the implementation idea, but forgot to do it.

BTW, is there an easy way to get the module name for the interface?
That's also helpful information for the user.

Kalle