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Re: [PATCH 3/4] p54: protect against sudden firmware file changes

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On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 00:54 +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> On Friday 14 November 2008 23:00:28 Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 19:41 +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> > > Thanks to "p54: introduce new names for device firmwares"
> > > (325ca16910a380c...) people are now migrating away from the buggy firmwares. 
> > > Of course this is a very good idea, but no one told them to unload the driver first.
> > 
> > that seems weird. Doesn't the driver pretty much have to cache the
> > firmware anyway for suspend/resume?
> 
> well, that's odd. No one complained about this bug yet?!
> Even better, this bug/quirk is even present in the initial p54pci version that made it
> into the kernel. In fact it looks like its even present in the fullmac driver! Luis?
> 
> I guess, I have to leave it that way to provide "bug-to-bug" compatibility! ;-)

Maybe it doesn't upload the firmware at resume? But that'd be odd.

johannes

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