[Prism54-devel] Re: wireless API semantics when netif down?
Jean Tourrilhes
jt@hpl.hp.com
Tue, 25 Nov 2003 19:10:55 -0800
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 11:25:32AM +0100, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 10:54:26AM +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> [..]
> > The best solution would of course be if the driver could report the
> > real mac address even before the interface is up.
> [..]
>
> alas this requires the firmware to have been uploaded and be operational;
> something that'd be easiest/best to do at ifup time...
I know, that's why I told you about it.
> it's quite annoying to have such a large firmware, which needs to be
> loaded from time to time, and which for now has to reside on the
> filesystem...
Probably better than having to reside in kernel memory (non
swapable).
> regards,
> --
> Herbert Valerio Riedel
By the way, do you have any plan to merge into 2.6.X, or do
you plan to remain standalone ?
Have fun...
Jean