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From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>, Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: wpa supplicant interface up delay
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 14:18:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081007181857.GB3287@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1223403498.7328.73.camel@johannes.berg>

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 08:18:18PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 20:16 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > * Wait some time to allow driver to initialize before
> >                          * starting configuring the driver. This seems to be  
> >                          * needed at least some drivers that load firmware etc.
> >                          * when the interface is set up.
> > 
> > which drivers are those, and why can't we fix the drivers instead? This
> > seems like a bug in the drivers that they return from their open
> > callback prematurely.
> 
> In any case, this delay should certainly be removed from the nl80211
> driver; when porting drivers to the new APIs we can make sure this is
> done correctly.

ACK

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-07 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-07 18:16 wpa supplicant interface up delay Johannes Berg
2008-10-07 18:18 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-07 18:18   ` John W. Linville [this message]
2008-10-07 19:44 ` Jouni Malinen

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