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From: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: wpa supplicant interface up delay
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 22:44:06 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081007194406.GK4941@jm.kir.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1223403361.7328.71.camel@johannes.berg>

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 08:16:01PM +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.

I've observed issues with a driver that (at least at the time) was not
fully open source. I didn't feel like fixing the driver at the time.

Anyway, I'm perfectly fine with removing this from nl80211. As far as
driver_wext.c is concerned, I would like to first verify what the
original issue is and whether the driver could be fixed easily.

-- 
Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-07 19:45 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
2008-10-07 19:44 ` Jouni Malinen [this message]

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