Hi!

> >>Anyway, our rebasing from ieee80211 up to the latest development tip is
> >>done across 29 commits, with a series size of 225k.
> >>
> >
> >Are there any plans to fix "compiled into kernel" case? It works okay
> >when modular, but when compiled into kernel, it fails to load
> >firmware....
> >
> I assume you are referring to ipw2{1,2}00 and not the ieee80211
>subsystem?

Yes, I was talking ipw2200.

> When last we had moved the firmware loader to outside of the netdev init
> callback, we had problems with distros not bringing up the interface
> correctly (it wasn't being opened until after carrier was detected...
> which meant it couldn't be configured because it hadn't been brought up,
> and so hadn't had the firmware loaded)

Well, we can fix the distros :-). Could we at least mark
CONFIG_IPW2200=Y as unsupported -- only allow N and M?

                                                                Pavel
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