From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262459AbVFITxv (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2005 15:53:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262458AbVFITxu (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2005 15:53:50 -0400 Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:27068 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262460AbVFITxl (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2005 15:53:41 -0400 Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 12:53:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20050609.125324.88476545.davem@davemloft.net> To: pavel@ucw.cz Cc: vda@ilport.com.ua, abonilla@linuxwireless.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ipw2100-admin@linux.intel.com Subject: Re: ipw2100: firmware problem From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20050609104205.GD3169@elf.ucw.cz> References: <200506090909.55889.vda@ilport.com.ua> <20050608.231657.59660080.davem@davemloft.net> <20050609104205.GD3169@elf.ucw.cz> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.3 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Pavel Machek Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 12:42:05 +0200 > I'm not saying it should not work automagically. But it is wrong to > start transmitting on wireless as soon as kernel boots. It should stay > quiet in the radio until it is either told to talk or until interface > is upped. I agree. There is a similar problem in the Acenic driver, it brings the link up and receives broadcast packets as soon as the driver is loaded. Mostly this is because the driver inits the chip and registers the IRQ handler at probe time, whereas nearly every other driver does this at ->open() time.