On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 02:24:02PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > On 03/18/2015 02:11 PM, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 09:34:14AM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > >> I have no idea what AutoRun mode is (it seems that the stick already > >> has a firmware and is happy with it) and I have no clue why the firmware > >> decides to lie about it. I looked at the vendor driver I found at github > >> (which seems to be from 2012-10-22, DPO_RT5572_LinuxSTA_2.6.1.3) and > >> well, I look again if someone says it is worth looking… They seem to do > >> some kind "firmware is comming" magic which might be already done in the > >> current driver at a different spot but I think the main question is why > >> request is answered wrong. I *think* the vendor driver sends the > >> USB_MODE_AUTORUN request only once but it is hard to tell… > > > > Does the below patch solve the issue ? > > So you kill the please-load-the-firware bit and avoid further questions > regarding its state. Yes, it helps as in my test-case is now running > for ~15h. I see the "NIC in AutoRun mode" just once. Thanks. > > I am still curious why it answers wrong but lets hope the first answer > is correct :) I don't know, perhaps this value is only valid at initialization stage. Looks that vendor driver reads it only once and saves it as flag in the memory. Stanislaw -- 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
