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From: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com>
To: Stanislav Yakovlev <stas.yakovlev@gmail.com>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>, Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: MAINTAINER NEEDED -- Re: status of ipw2x00
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:01:51 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGRGNgXmx9_uDETd7MOJc4hXYXTMd1CSymevKh4DA4uSvjK=0Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA++WF2PCO8ZdhfSMs6_gy2gz5OvTkVrGYXm0X6Aicoe5JmK+pg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Stanislav,

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 09:56, Stanislav Yakovlev
<stas.yakovlev@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Henrique,
>
> On 17 March 2012 07:36, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> wrote:
>> Chances are ipw2xxx firmware will never get a new revision anyway, so
>> reloading the modules is not too large a price to pay if the user does
>> decide he has to force a firmware refresh...
>
> As far as I know there is no way to force firmware refresh at the
> moment without reloading the driver. If you know any implementations
> of such behavior, please let me know.

>From what I understand, this usually happens when something goes
horribly wrong and the only solution is to re-start the card from
scratch.

Reloading a module to do that isn't such a bad thing, but it would
arguably be better if it happened automatically. I believe that this
is one of the reset options for modern Intel cards.

Thanks,

-- 
Julian Calaby

Email: julian.calaby@gmail.com
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-19 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-30 13:42 status of ipw2x00 Tom Gundersen
2012-01-30 14:55 ` Johannes Berg
2012-01-30 15:08   ` Tom Gundersen
2012-01-30 15:28   ` wwguy
2012-01-30 18:44 ` MAINTAINER NEEDED -- " John W. Linville
2012-01-30 19:55   ` Dan Williams
2012-01-30 20:13     ` Florian Fainelli
2012-01-30 20:23       ` Dan Williams
2012-01-30 21:47   ` Julian Calaby
2012-01-30 21:52     ` Florian Fainelli
2012-01-30 21:59       ` Julian Calaby
2012-02-02 10:42   ` Francois Romieu
2012-02-03 20:58   ` Stanislav Yakovlev
2012-02-07 21:27     ` yao zhao
2012-03-15 11:02     ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2012-03-16  4:02       ` Stanislav Yakovlev
2012-03-17 14:36         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-03-19 22:56           ` Stanislav Yakovlev
2012-03-19 23:01             ` Julian Calaby [this message]
2012-03-20  2:11             ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh

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