From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268101AbUHKQkr (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:40:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268097AbUHKQhM (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:37:12 -0400 Received: from louise.pinerecords.com ([213.168.176.16]:8678 "EHLO louise.pinerecords.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268121AbUHKQfD (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:35:03 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:33:33 +0200 From: Tomas Szepe To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: James Ketrenos , Christoph Hellwig , Pavel Machek , Jeff Chua , netdev@oss.sgi.com, kernel list Subject: Re: ipw2100 wireless driver Message-ID: <20040811163333.GE10100@louise.pinerecords.com> References: <20040714115523.GC2269@elf.ucw.cz> <20040809201556.GB9677@louise.pinerecords.com> <20040810075558.A14154@infradead.org> <20040810101640.GF9034@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <4119F203.1070009@linux.intel.com> <20040811114437.A27439@infradead.org> <411A478E.1080101@linux.intel.com> <20040811093043.522cc5a0@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040811093043.522cc5a0@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Aug-11 2004, Wed, 09:30 -0700 Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > 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. Or better yet, let's not! There are many people who don't want to mess around with hotplug just to get a single driver to load. -- Tomas Szepe