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On 01/14/2012 11:58 AM, John W. Linville wrote:
> Kay, thanks for the reports.  Drivers should definitely be loading
> firmware at IFF_UP time.

As the maintainer for several drivers with this problem, I need to make some 
changes. What call from mac80211 corresponds to IFF_UP?

I have looked into using asynchronous firmware loading, but I have not yet found 
a good implementation.

Larry