On Wednesday, February 13, 2008 4:49 AM, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 13:49 +0000, 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). > > I wonder if the MAC address can be read directly like the 3945/4965 > hw can? In this patch the text in the Kconfig help text is what we go by. The description about the MAC address in the patch description is not 100% accurate as the MAC address is read from EEPROM, not firmware. In this patch the goal is just to not have the driver built in, but a module. This ensures that firmware can be loaded at a time when the filesystem is available. 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
