[brussels-dev] code review Brussels persistence

Artem Kachitchkine Artem.Kachitchkin at Sun.COM
Tue Apr 22 19:53:51 PDT 2008


>  > Good question. If we have any kind of persistence for wifi drivers, it 
>  > seems to be working by accident.
> 
> Not completely.  As per the comment:
> 
>         #
>         # Unfortunately, if a driver unloads and then is subsequently reloaded,
>         # no mechanism currently exists to restore the properties of its
>         # associated links.  Hence, we wait until after interfaces have been
>         # plumbed (above) to initialize link properties.

Right. And that's extremely fragile and readily reproducible, e.g. on 
DEBUG kernel with NWAM enabled.

-Artem


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