From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Cc: James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add iwlwifi wireless drivers
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 21:46:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46539D09.2050902@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705221806.07696.flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Michael Wu wrote:
> However, I don't like it. Bringing the hardware up should be deferred as much
> as possible to when the user actually brings the interface up. ipw2200 can
> defer firmware loading to interface open time while still reading the mac
> address from the eeprom.. why not ipw3945? (the ipw2200 driver doesn't
> actually do this, but it should. I know it can.)
VERY good point. This is the standard for ethernet drivers:
probe:
basic hardware init, read MAC address from EEPROM
interface up:
full hardware power-up, reset and init
write MAC address to hardware
request irq
net stack up
interface down:
net stack down
hardware, power & irq down
And I would hope that wireless drivers would follow a similar pattern.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-23 1:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-16 21:45 [PATCH] Add iwlwifi wireless drivers James Ketrenos
2007-05-17 1:27 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-05-17 4:28 ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-17 5:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-22 21:38 ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-18 19:01 ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-18 20:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-18 20:54 ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-18 21:06 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-05-22 18:39 ` John W. Linville
2007-05-22 18:29 ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-17 1:51 ` Michael Wu
2007-05-17 2:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-17 3:55 ` Michael Wu
2007-05-17 8:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-22 19:16 ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-22 23:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-22 21:49 ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-22 23:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-22 22:56 ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-23 0:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-23 18:17 ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-23 19:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-23 19:30 ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-23 1:06 ` Michael Wu
2007-05-23 1:46 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-05-17 3:35 ` [PATCH] Add iwlwifi wireless drivers [part 2/2] Randy Dunlap
2007-05-17 15:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-05-17 15:05 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-05-18 7:04 ` Johannes Berg
2007-05-18 20:33 ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-18 22:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-18 21:31 ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-18 22:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-18 23:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-21 14:56 ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-21 16:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-21 16:48 ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-21 18:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-21 20:12 ` Cohen, Guy
2007-05-21 21:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-21 21:10 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-05-21 21:43 ` Cohen, Guy
2007-05-21 22:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-21 21:22 ` Joerg Mayer
2007-05-21 21:46 ` Cohen, Guy
2007-05-18 22:13 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-05-18 23:05 ` [PATCH] Add iwlwifi wireless drivers Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-18 23:22 ` Michael Wu
2007-05-22 21:50 ` [PATCH v3] " James Ketrenos
2007-05-23 1:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-23 15:16 ` James Ketrenos
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