Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:20:48 -0700
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Wei Weng <wweng@acedsl.com>
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Subject: Re: Mark IPW2100 as BROKEN: Fatal interrupt. Scheduling firmware
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On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:52:37 -0400
Wei Weng <wweng@acedsl.com> wrote:
> > again.. so how about you detect this condition and do, in the driver
> > code, the equivalent of rmmod/insmod to the hardware. I'm sure
> > people who have the hardware would appreciate that type of patch a
> > lot more than the one you sent out.
> > 
> 
> I guess it is your way of "middle finger" to all the IPW2100
> customers who try to use it on a Linux machine.

if suggesting a workaround is giving the middle finger in your mind, 
then I don't think it's worth my time to discuss this further with you.


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