On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 15:13 -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On 2/13/07, Michael Wu <flamingice@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 February 2007 14:37, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > > So this isn't really consistent. I'm unclear as to why the ipw cards > > > > need it on init rather than on dev open, but hey, why make things > > > > easier? > > > > > > When is ->init() called anyway? Isn't it when you register the netdev so > > > it would be on probe? > > > > > Yes, ipw2200 does it on probe... but I know it can be pushed off to open. I've > > done it. However.. I think intersil cards really need firmware to read the > > eeprom. > > This is correct > > > prism54 currently sets a fake MAC address so they can push it off to > > open, but I think this is wrong. > > This was suggested by Jean a long time ago after we asked for advice > on what to do since we couldn't read the MAC before loading the > firmware. Whatever we decide on we should standardize on it in case > other new cards end up with same issue. One option was to have the > probe() fail if no firmware was present but obviously this would force > you to reload the module/reboot if you then get the firmware. We > decided to leave the firmware upload on open() to overcome this but > the problem then was the lack of a MAC address. > > Anyone know if wireless network devices the only ones requiring a > firmware? If not then we should think of slapping something onto > net_device. Otherwise we should distinguish the requirement on > cfg80211_config so userspace tools know WTF is going on and inform the > user appropriately. No; others include Apple iSight cameras (the built-in USB variants), bluetooth devices (usually USB too), Keyspan serial adapters (usually USB), a bunch of stuff in drivers/media/video/, some non-USB network adapters, and some adaptec and qlogic sci drivers. It seems that most USB devices require firmware no matter what type they are. Beyond that: probe: scsi/qla2xxx, net/myri10ge, scsi/aic94xx, net/spidernet open: serial/icom Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
