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From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] p54: protect against sudden firmware file changes
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:54:29 +0100
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	John W Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
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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! ;-)

Regards,
	Chr