Jonathan Gray wrote: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 09:16:08AM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > > > If the firmare image is not present at boot, no interface is created. > > After installing the firmware with fw_update (which succeeds because > > it looks for "iwm" in dmesg not ifconfig) there is no way to recover > > the interface without a reboot because 'ifconfig iwm0' doesn't work.
> If the mac address and the supported 802.11 modes depend on > having the firmware loaded, is it really worth adding a > interface that allows invalid parameters to be set? Maybe? See above. If I don't have firmware when I boot, but install firmware later, the interface should still be useable. Putting the interface into a "must reboot" state should be considered a bug.
