[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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