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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:56:43 -0700
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Subject: Re: MAINTAINER NEEDED -- Re: status of ipw2x00
From: Stanislav Yakovlev <stas.yakovlev@gmail.com>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: 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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Hello Henrique,

On 17 March 2012 07:36, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Stanislav Yakovlev wrote:
>> On 15 March 2012 04:02, Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> wrote:
>> > Are you plan to fix issues caused on current firmware loading changes on
>> > linux?
>>
>> I was able to reproduce this issue; unfortunately, I don't have a
>> proper fix for it yet.
>
> Maybe you could delay the firmware load to when the device is opened (at
> which point you can probably change the driver to keep the device in PCI
> D3 state unless it is opened, which does save power), and just caching
> the firmware forever after the first load so that you don't need to
> request_firmware anything more than once.
>
> 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.

Stanislav.

> --
> ?"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
> ?them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
> ?where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
> ?Henrique Holschuh