From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
To: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
John W Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>,
Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@Atheros.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] p54: protect against sudden firmware file changes
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:35:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081115003510.GI27642@tesla> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200811150054.30113.chunkeey@web.de>
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 03:54:29PM -0800, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> On Friday 14 November 2008 23:00:28 Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 19:41 +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> > > Thanks to "p54: introduce new names for device firmwares"
> > > (325ca16910a380c...) people are now migrating away from the buggy firmwares.
> > > Of course this is a very good idea, but no one told them to unload the driver first.
> >
> > that seems weird. Doesn't the driver pretty much have to cache the
> > firmware anyway for suspend/resume?
>
> well, that's odd. No one complained about this bug yet?!
> Even better, this bug/quirk is even present in the initial p54pci version that made it
> into the kernel. In fact it looks like its even present in the fullmac driver! Luis?
Umm, hey there's a shiny new driver called p54pci, I hear its maintainer
is really good with it and actually keeps it up to date and everything.
Luis
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-15 0:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-14 18:41 [PATCH 3/4] p54: protect against sudden firmware file changes Christian Lamparter
2008-11-14 22:00 ` Johannes Berg
2008-11-14 23:54 ` Christian Lamparter
2008-11-15 0:02 ` Johannes Berg
2008-11-15 0:42 ` [PATCH 3/4] p54pci: cache firmware for suspend/resume Christian Lamparter
2008-11-15 18:30 ` [PATCH 3/4] p54pci: cache firmware for suspend/resume v2 Christian Lamparter
2008-11-16 11:20 ` [PATCH 3/4] p54pci: cache firmware for suspend/resume v2.1 Christian Lamparter
2008-11-16 15:35 ` Larry Finger
2008-11-16 15:36 ` Johannes Berg
2008-11-15 0:35 ` Luis R. Rodriguez [this message]
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