linux-kernel - Re: Mark IPW2100 as BROKEN: Fatal interrupt. Scheduling firmware restart.

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Message-ID: <20080921122048.2bd52541@infradead.org>
Date:	Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:20:48 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Wei Weng <wweng@...dsl.com>
Cc:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ipw2100-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, yi.zhu@...el.com,
	reinette.chatre@...el.com, jgarzik@...ox.com,
	linville@...driver.com, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: Mark IPW2100 as BROKEN: Fatal interrupt. Scheduling firmware
 restart.

On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:52:37 -0400
Wei Weng <wweng@...dsl.com> wrote:
> > again.. so how about you detect this condition and do, in the driver
> > code, the equivalent of rmmod/insmod to the hardware. I'm sure
> > people who have the hardware would appreciate that type of patch a
> > lot more than the one you sent out.
> > 
> 
> I guess it is your way of "middle finger" to all the IPW2100
> customers who try to use it on a Linux machine.

if suggesting a workaround is giving the middle finger in your mind, 
then I don't think it's worth my time to discuss this further with you.



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