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Daniel Drake 19ae3a6a96 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: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29 15:37:15 -05:00
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acorn/char
acpi Merge branches 'release', 'bugzilla-9916', 'bugzilla-9982', 'bugzilla-9989', 'misc', 'suspend', 'thermal', 'thinkpad' and 'tsc' into release 2008-02-21 02:41:58 -05:00
amba
ata libata-core: fix kernel-doc warning 2008-02-24 00:28:48 -05:00
atm
auxdisplay
base Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 2008-02-21 16:33:19 -08:00
block NBD: make nbd default to deadline I/O scheduler 2008-02-23 17:12:15 -08:00
bluetooth hci_ldisc: fix null pointer deref 2008-02-12 17:54:16 -08:00
cdrom Merge branch 'for-2.6.25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc 2008-02-07 09:02:26 -08:00
char i915: fix AR register restore. 2008-02-22 16:50:29 -08:00
clocksource
connector CONNECTOR: make cn_already_initialized static 2008-02-26 18:42:44 -08:00
cpufreq cpufreq: fix kobject reference count handling 2008-02-21 15:27:06 -08:00
cpuidle ACPI, cpuidle: Clarify C-state description in sysfs 2008-02-14 00:09:55 -05:00
crypto [HIFN]: Fix invalid config ifdefs for RNG support 2008-02-15 19:15:05 +08:00
dca DCA: convert struct class_device to struct device. 2008-02-08 15:33:33 -08:00
dio dio: ARRAY_SIZE() cleanup 2008-02-05 09:44:23 -08:00
dma async_tx: replace 'int_en' with operation preparation flags 2008-02-06 10:12:18 -07:00
edac drivers/edac/i3000: document type promotion 2008-02-07 08:42:23 -08:00
eisa
firewire
firmware dmi: prevent linked list corruption 2008-02-23 17:12:15 -08:00
gpio gpio: handle pca953{4,5,6,7,8} too 2008-02-06 10:41:15 -08:00
hid HID: add USB IDs for MacBook 3rd generation 2008-02-13 17:08:04 +01:00
hwmon hwmon: normal_i2c arrays should be const 2008-02-18 21:58:15 -05:00
i2c i2c-i801: Add support for the ICH10 2008-02-24 20:03:42 +01:00
ide PM: Introduce PM_EVENT_HIBERNATE callback state 2008-02-23 10:40:04 -08:00
ieee1394
infiniband IB/mthca: Free correct MPT on error exit from mthca_fmr_alloc() 2008-02-19 10:42:50 -08:00
input mn10300: add the MN10300/AM33 architecture to the kernel 2008-02-08 09:22:30 -08:00
isdn isdn: fix section mismatch warning for ISACVer 2008-02-09 23:29:28 -08:00
leds PWM LED driver 2008-02-08 09:22:38 -08:00
lguest lguest: accept guest _PAGE_PWT page table entries 2008-02-09 23:24:09 +01:00
macintosh PM: Introduce PM_EVENT_HIBERNATE callback state 2008-02-23 10:40:04 -08:00
mca
md dm-raid1.c: fix NULL dereferences 2008-02-19 15:52:27 -08:00
media V4L/DVB (7219): zoran: Fix namespace conflicts with Zoran 'GPIO_MAX' enum 2008-02-18 12:18:28 -03:00
memstick drivers/memstick/host/tifm_ms.c breakage 2008-02-13 08:16:35 -08:00
message [SCSI] mptbase: fix use-after-free's 2008-02-22 09:08:13 -06:00
mfd ASIC3 driver 2008-02-07 08:42:23 -08:00
misc Merge branches 'release', 'bugzilla-9916', 'bugzilla-9982', 'bugzilla-9989', 'misc', 'suspend', 'thermal', 'thinkpad' and 'tsc' into release 2008-02-21 02:41:58 -05:00
mmc mmc: extend ricoh_mmc to support Ricoh RL5c476 2008-02-08 09:02:47 +01:00
mtd Introduce path_put() 2008-02-14 21:13:33 -08:00
net ipw2100/ipw2200: note firmware loading caveat in Kconfig help text 2008-02-29 15:37:15 -05:00
nubus nubus: kill drivers/nubus/nubus_syms.c 2008-02-05 09:44:23 -08:00
of [POWERPC] Create and hook up of_platform_device_shutdown 2008-02-06 16:29:59 +11:00
oprofile d_path: Make get_dcookie() use a struct path argument 2008-02-14 21:17:08 -08:00
parisc iommu sg merging: parisc: make iommu respect the segment size limits 2008-02-05 09:44:10 -08:00
parport parport: section fixup 2008-02-13 16:21:19 -08:00
pci copyright owner and author clean up for intel iommu and related files 2008-02-23 17:12:14 -08:00
pcmcia PCI: drivers/pcmcia/i82092.c: fix up after pci_bus_region changes 2008-02-21 15:34:35 -08:00
pnp Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 2008-02-14 21:29:46 -08:00
power Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 2008-02-07 09:45:58 -08:00
ps3 [POWERPC] PS3: Update sys-manager button events 2008-02-14 22:11:01 +11:00
rapidio
rtc rtc-cmos: display HPET emulation mode 2008-02-23 17:12:14 -08:00
s390 [NETNS]: Disable inetaddr notifiers in namespaces other than initial. 2008-02-28 20:46:17 -08:00
sbus
scsi fix vmsas.c file permissions 2008-02-23 19:49:34 -08:00
serial atmel_serial: fix interrupt handler return value 2008-02-23 17:12:14 -08:00
sh maple: improve detection of attached peripherals 2008-02-14 14:22:11 +09:00
sn
spi spi: pxa2xx_spi clock polarity fix 2008-02-23 17:12:14 -08:00
ssb SSB PCI core driver: use new SPROM data structure 2008-02-28 09:29:58 -05:00
tc
telephony
thermal thermal: use ERR_PTR for returning error 2008-02-15 18:21:30 -05:00
uio UIO: fix Greg's stupid changes 2008-02-21 15:27:07 -08:00
usb Fix u132-hcd.c compile error 2008-02-23 20:29:09 -08:00
video drivers/video/uvesafb.c: fix section mismatch warning in param_set_scroll() 2008-02-23 17:12:15 -08:00
virtio virtio: add missing #include <linux/delay.h> 2008-02-06 10:41:21 -08:00
w1 DS1WM: decouple host IRQ and INTR active state settings 2008-02-07 08:42:06 -08:00
watchdog [WATCHDOG] HP ProLiant WatchDog driver 2008-02-18 17:06:21 +00:00
xen
zorro
Kconfig memstick: initial commit for Sony MemoryStick support 2008-02-09 11:08:34 -08:00
Makefile memstick: initial commit for Sony MemoryStick support 2008-02-09 11:08:34 -08:00