From: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
Jeff Chua <jeffchua@silk.corp.fedex.com>,
netdev@oss.sgi.com, kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ipw2100 wireless driver
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:33:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040811163333.GE10100@louise.pinerecords.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040811093043.522cc5a0@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net>
On Aug-11 2004, Wed, 09:30 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> 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 <szepe@pinerecords.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-11 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-14 11:41 ipw2100 wireless driver Pavel Machek
2004-07-14 11:48 ` Jeff Chua
2004-07-14 11:55 ` Pavel Machek
2004-08-09 20:15 ` Tomas Szepe
2004-08-10 5:02 ` Jeff Chua
2004-08-10 6:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-10 10:16 ` Pavel Machek
2004-08-10 10:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-11 12:17 ` Pavel Machek
2004-08-11 17:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-11 20:27 ` Pavel Machek
2004-08-11 22:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-11 10:16 ` James Ketrenos
2004-08-11 10:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-11 10:53 ` Wichert Akkerman
2004-08-11 10:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-11 16:21 ` James Ketrenos
2004-08-11 16:30 ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-08-11 16:33 ` Tomas Szepe [this message]
2004-08-11 16:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-11 17:02 ` Tomas Szepe
2004-08-11 17:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-11 17:22 ` Tomas Szepe
2004-08-11 18:55 ` John Stoffel
2004-08-11 23:55 ` Jeff Chua
2004-08-12 3:47 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2004-08-11 17:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-14 12:30 ` Tomas Szepe
2004-07-14 12:27 ` Pavel Machek
2004-07-14 13:15 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-07-14 13:42 ` Pavel Machek
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