[haiku-development] Re: Driver loading

Rene Gollent <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Colin Günther<coling@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > An atheros wlan card, sitting on a mini pci socket.
> Axel can confirm/refute to be certain, but I believe ifconfig down is
> enough for the network stack to close its handle on the driver, which
> should allow you to reload it with a newer version.

Exactly. If that doesn't work, please file a bug report.
The kernel should automatically detect if your driver binary changed,
and will load it again once it can do so (ie. the driver is not used
anymore).

Bye,
   Axel.

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