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LKML: Pavel Machek: ipw2200 [was Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel]
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For the most part that's not me, although I was in the "if<br />> > you're going to add ipw2200 support, why not something that works?"<br />> > group. But new stuff is going in faster than most people can assimilate<br />> > it if they have a real job, so I don't see too much problem there.<br />> <br />> My laptop has an ipw2200 but I can't get it to work in any kernel I built <br />> because the kernels I build aren't modular. I hope to be able to work around <br />> this someday with a clever enough initramfs (if necessary, moving the <br />> initramfs initialization earlier in the boot sequence), but it hasn't made it <br />> far enough up my todo list yet.<br /><br />Well, building modular kernel for a test is not *that* much work.<br />Anyway, if you are going to fix it, fix it properly (by<br />delayed firmware loading) -- initrd hacks are good for you<br />but unusable for anyone else.<br /><br /> Pavel<br />-- <br />Thanks, Sharp!<br />-<br />To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in<br />the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org<br />More majordomo info at <a href="http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html">http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html</a><br />Please read the FAQ at <a href="http://www.tux.org/lkml/">http://www.tux.org/lkml/</a><br /><br /></pre></td><td width="32" rowspan="2" class="c" valign="top"><img src="/images/icornerr.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="\" /></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="bottom"> 聽 </td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="bottom">聽</td><td class="c" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 0px"><img src="/images/bcornerl.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="\" /></td><td class="c">聽</td><td class="c" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 0px"><img src="/images/bcornerr.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="/" /></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" colspan="2"> 聽 </td><td class="lm">Last update: 2005-12-10 09:39 聽聽 [from the cache]<br />漏2003-2020 <a href="http://blog.jasper.es/"><span itemprop="editor">Jasper Spaans</span></a>|hosted at <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=9a8e99d24cf9">Digital Ocean</a> and my Meterkast|<a href="http://blog.jasper.es/categories.html#lkml-ref">Read the blog</a></td><td>聽</td></tr></table><script language="javascript" src="/js/styleswitcher.js" type="text/javascript"></script></body></html>