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From: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:01:51 +1100
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Subject: Re: MAINTAINER NEEDED -- Re: status of ipw2x00
To: Stanislav Yakovlev <stas.yakovlev@gmail.com>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>,
	Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
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Hi Stanislav,

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 09:56, Stanislav Yakovlev
<stas.yakovlev@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Henrique,
>
> On 17 March 2012 07:36, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> 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

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