[Prism54-devel] [Bug 110] firmware loads only after activating interface

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------- Additional Comments From mcgrof at ruslug.rutgers.edu  2004-10-02 13:43 -------

Technically no as the firmware is binary only and some boxes may not have it.
What I had suggested previously was to do it both at probe and at open time to
allow for both behaviours. I last tried to work on a nice solution to this and
tried two approaches:

I. do islpci_reset and then shut the radio off
II. islpci_open and then islpci_close

Approach "I" seemed most logical but unfortunately proved very difficult as you
should be doing a lot of work besides shutting the radio off -- like disabling
interrupts. The problem is that turning the radio off depends on how fast the
chipset interacts with the firmware and shuts it off and responds. The amount of
time it takes to do this is way over acceptable msleep values, and a timer is
probably OK but overkill.

Approach "II" works but is nasty IMHO. I'll look into a better approach to this.
This is, however, not a bug.





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