Commit 19ae3a6a authored by Daniel Drake's avatar Daniel Drake Committed by John W. Linville

ipw2100/ipw2200: note firmware loading caveat in Kconfig help text

Most wireless drivers load their firmware at interface open time, which
generally occurs after the filesystem is available. However, the ipw drivers
load their firmware at probe time because firmware is required to read the
device MAC address. When built-in, probe happens before the filesystem is
available, hence device init will only complete successfully if the user
has made special arrangements (including firmware plus a loader in the
initramfs).

Note all this in the kconfig help text for both drivers.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarReinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent 5200e8cd
......@@ -147,10 +147,13 @@ config IPW2100
<http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be
inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
say M here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt>.
The module will be called ipw2100.ko.
It is recommended that you compile this driver as a module (M)
rather than built-in (Y). This driver requires firmware at device
initialization time, and when built-in this typically happens
before the filesystem is accessible (hence firmware will be
unavailable and initialization will fail). If you do choose to build
this driver into your kernel image, you can avoid this problem by
including the firmware and a firmware loader in an initramfs.
config IPW2100_MONITOR
bool "Enable promiscuous mode"
......@@ -202,10 +205,13 @@ config IPW2200
<http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be
inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
say M here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt>.
The module will be called ipw2200.ko.
It is recommended that you compile this driver as a module (M)
rather than built-in (Y). This driver requires firmware at device
initialization time, and when built-in this typically happens
before the filesystem is accessible (hence firmware will be
unavailable and initialization will fail). If you do choose to build
this driver into your kernel image, you can avoid this problem by
including the firmware and a firmware loader in an initramfs.
config IPW2200_MONITOR
bool "Enable promiscuous mode"
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