On , Daniel Drake wrote: > Most wireless drivers load their firmware at interface open time, > which generally occurs after the filesystem is available. However, > the ipw drivers > load their firmware at probe time because firmware is required > to read the > device MAC address. When built-in, probe happens before the > filesystem is > available, hence device init will only complete successfully > if the user > has made special arrangements (including firmware plus a loader in > the initramfs). > > Note all this in the kconfig help text for both drivers. > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- Thank you very much. Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx> Reinette - 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
