On 04/03/2013 10:55 AM, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2013-04-03 at 10:41 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote: >> The firmware is requested from user-space. To assure the request >> can be handled it is recommended to do the request upon IFF_UP. >> For a mac80211 driver the .start() callback can be considered >> the equivalent. > > FWIW, many drivers now don't do it on IFF_UP/start any more but do > request_firmware_nowait() in probe and only finish probing and > registering with mac80211 when they have the firmware file. This is > necessary if you have any device/driver capabilities that depend on the > firmware that need to be known before registering with mac80211. Thanks, Johannes I do recall looking into async firmware request API a while ago. Right now we do not need it for brcmsmac, but we may need to move to that when support for more devices comes in. Gr. AvS -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
