From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
ipw2100-admin@linux.intel.com,
Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipw2100/ipw2200: note firmware loading caveat in Kconfig help text
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:48:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1202906930.8931.44.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080212134942.9FD589D4135@zog.reactivated.net> (sfid-20080212_141033_444486_ED50E00D)
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On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 13:49 +0000, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Most wireless drivers load their firmware at interface open time, which
> generally occurs after the filesystem is available. However, the ipw drivers
> load their firmware at probe time because firmware is required to read the
> device MAC address. When built-in, probe happens before the filesystem is
> available, hence device init will only complete successfully if the user
> has made special arrangements (including firmware plus a loader in the
> initramfs).
I wonder if the MAC address can be read directly like the 3945/4965 hw
can?
johannes
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-12 13:49 [PATCH] ipw2100/ipw2200: note firmware loading caveat in Kconfig help text Daniel Drake
2008-02-12 21:44 ` [Ipw2100-admin] [PATCH] ipw2100/ipw2200: note firmware loadingcaveat " Chatre, Reinette
2008-02-13 12:48 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2008-02-13 21:21 ` [PATCH] ipw2100/ipw2200: note firmware loading caveat inKconfig " Chatre, Reinette
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