[removed some people from Cc: list as this is probably not much
interesting for them]

On Mon, 15 May 2006 14:04:44 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 13:37 +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:
> > bcm43xx does that. If I understand it correctly, bcm43xx driver doesn't
> > know allowed modes until it loads firmware. And the firmware is not
> > loaded until the device is opened (they probably have a reason for
> > this). 
> 
> No, that's not right, the firmware has nothing to do with it. At least
> not that we know of, so we treat it as all doing the same :)

Hm, so your calls to ieee80211_update_hw are probably unnecessary.
Anyway, I'm still inclined towards not masking hw_modes by
valid_hw_modes.

 Jiri

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Jiri Benc
SUSE Labs
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