On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 09:18:57PM -0800, Jouni Malinen wrote: > I'm not completely against this change, but that scary comment is there > on purpose and it is not fully obsolete. It is still possible to get > HFA3841 cards into state which require hardware modifications to recover > from (i.e., they are as good as dead for most users). Taken into this > account, I would prefer that the help text for HOSTAP_FIRMWARE_NVRAM > would include a warning about the potential issues of using incorrect > firmware images. In most cases, RAM (volatile) download can be used to > upgrade the firmware without having to modify the flash contents. This > is also what the current Windows drivers are doing.
I would welcome such a warning as well - perhaps make CONFIG_HOSTAP_FIRMWARE_NVRAM depend on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL as well? Regards, Brix -- Henrik Brix Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Metadistribution | Mobile computing herd
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