Search Linux Wireless

Re: MAINTAINER NEEDED -- Re: status of ipw2x00

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Hi Stanislav,

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 09:56, Stanislav Yakovlev
<stas.yakovlev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello Henrique,
>
> On 17 March 2012 07:36, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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...
>
> As far as I know there is no way to force firmware refresh at the
> moment without reloading the driver. If you know any implementations
> of such behavior, please let me know.

>From what I understand, this usually happens when something goes
horribly wrong and the only solution is to re-start the card from
scratch.

Reloading a module to do that isn't such a bad thing, but it would
arguably be better if it happened automatically. I believe that this
is one of the reset options for modern Intel cards.

Thanks,

-- 
Julian Calaby

Email: julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx
Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/
.Plan: http://sites.google.com/site/juliancalaby/
--
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


[Index of Archives]     [Linux Host AP]     [ATH6KL]     [Linux Wireless Personal Area Network]     [Linux Bluetooth]     [Linux Netdev]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Linux Kernel]     [IDE]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite Hiking]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux RAID]

  Powered by Linux