On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 14:43 -0300, Lauro Ramos Venancio wrote: > > We need to add the following 2 control operations (via generic netlink): > > - Dev_up, which turn on the NFC controller (this operation may take a few seconds, as it can download new FW to the NFC controller) > > - Dev_down, which turn off the NFC controller > > The dev_up/down approach was also used with HCI protocol in the BlueZ project. > > I am not completely convinced that we need the dev up/down. Why is it > not possible to load the FW in the probe? The usual problem, if the driver is built-in then the probe will run before userspace is available to load firmware. johannes -- 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
