From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com, jgarzik@pobox.com, pavel@ucw.cz,
yi.zhu@intel.com, jketreno@linux.intel.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mark.fasheh@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [patch] do not allow IPW_2100=Y or IPW_2200=Y
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:56:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060710205620.GO11640@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1152557518.4874.79.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 08:51:58PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > Besides, the initramfs runs long after the driver init routine
> > runs which is when the firmware needs to be available.
>
> .. unless you use sysfs to do a fake hotunplug + replug the device, at
> which point the driver init routine runs again.
Can we document how to do that? I've wanted to synthesize such
things before, and I couldn't quite reason how.
In my case, I had RHEL4 module-init-tools that don't wait for
modprobe, so I had to compile in scsi and qla2x00, but the qla2x00 needs
firmware, and it's too early...etc.
Joel
--
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Get luck sometimes.
Even the losers
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Joel Becker
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-10 20:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-10 15:20 [patch] do not allow IPW_2100=Y or IPW_2200=Y Pavel Machek
2006-07-10 17:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-07-10 18:29 ` Auke Kok
2006-07-10 18:47 ` David Miller
2006-07-10 18:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-10 20:56 ` Joel Becker [this message]
2006-07-11 14:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-11 21:53 ` Joel Becker
2006-07-11 11:27 ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-11 14:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-10 21:05 ` Michael Buesch
2006-07-11 11:53 ` Daniel Drake
2006-07-11 20:39 ` Michael Buesch
2006-07-11 20:59 ` Daniel Drake
2006-07-11 13:32 ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-12 4:39 ` Zhu Yi
2006-07-27 14:43 ` John W. Linville
2006-07-11 13:34 ` [patch] cleanup // comments from ipw2200 Pavel Machek
2006-07-10 22:21 ` [patch] do not allow IPW_2100=Y or IPW_2200=Y Jan Engelhardt
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[not found] ` <6xyhj-5Fq-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-07-12 20:56 ` Bodo Eggert
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