Re: pull request: wireless 2012-01-04

[Larry Finger]

On 01/04/2012 10:31 AM, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 10:58:16AM -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
>
> > I was hesitant to include the rtlwifi fix, but settled on inclusion
> > because it was a product of a recent ginormous thread about the
> > intersection of firmware loading and suspend/resume.  Plus it fixes
> > a bug report in the Red Hat Bugzilla. :-) If you don't think it is
> > worthy, let me know and I'll drop it from this release.
>
> It looks like this could generate a build warning...
>
> 	http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=132569396407866&w=2
>
> I'm getting cold feet on this one.  I withdraw this pull request --
> new one to follow soon!

John,

I will resubmit this patch with a fix.

I now realize that my fix has a different problem in that the firmware might not 
be preserved under certain scenarios if there were two instances of the device 
sharing the driver. These are corner cases, but I would like to fix that as well.

Is there any way for a driver to know that it is being initialized for a second 
device?

Thanks,

Larry
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