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Re: MAINTAINER NEEDED -- Re: status of ipw2x00

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On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Stanislav Yakovlev wrote:
> On 15 March 2012 04:02, Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Are you plan to fix issues caused on current firmware loading changes on
> > linux?
> 
> I was able to reproduce this issue; unfortunately, I don't have a
> proper fix for it yet.

Maybe you could delay the firmware load to when the device is opened (at
which point you can probably change the driver to keep the device in PCI
D3 state unless it is opened, which does save power), and just caching
the firmware forever after the first load so that you don't need to
request_firmware anything more than once.

Chances are ipw2xxx firmware will never get a new revision anyway, so
reloading the modules is not too large a price to pay if the user does
decide he has to force a firmware refresh...

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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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