On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 11:17:52 -0500 (EST) Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As Linus pointed out, the real problem here is the firmware loader. > The way it is now, a driver can't always depend on the data being > available, even during a normal boot. It ought to use an asynchronous > approach; then none of these problems would arise. request_firmware_nowait() exists. -- Greetings, Michael. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html