Re: ipw2100 wireless driver

[Tomas Szepe <szepe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug-11 2004, Wed, 09:30 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > The driver supports (and defaults to) using firmware_class for loading the 
> > firmware.  The driver also supports a legacy loading approach for folks 
> > that 
> > have problems with using hotplug to load the firmware (which represents a 
> > fair 
> > number of users).
> When and if you submit it into mainline, please remove the legacy loading
> approach. Let's get to the cause of the problem and fix it, not bandaid
> around it.

Or better yet, let's not!

There are many people who don't want to mess around with hotplug just
to get a single driver to load.

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Tomas Szepe <szepe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>