Re: [PATCH] bluetooth: remove wrong dependency for BT_ATH3K

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 09:58:38AM +0200, Hector Palacios wrote:
> This brings an interesting question: shouldn't the firmware download
> part be isolated from the USB driver? After all, I want to
> communicate with a UART bluetooth chip.

There are a few BT firmware upload modules (last I checked at least 2),
I believe it should be possible to stuff all that code a shared
module or even as FreeBSD does it -- treat fw uploading in userspace,
however just keep in mind for quirks [0]. So patches welcomed.

[0] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath3k#AR3011_over_USB

  Luis
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