Re: ipw2100 wireless driver

Stephen Hemminger
2004-08-11T16:33:45Z

> The driver supports (and defaults to) using firmware_class for loading the
> firmware. The driver also supports a legacy loading approach for folks that
> have problems with using hotplug to load the firmware (which represents a fair
> number of users).
>

When and if you submit it into mainline, please remove the legacy loading
approach. Let's get to the cause of the problem and fix it, not bandaid
around it.