Hello Arend, Thanks for review. > > Check that firmware exists prior to starting firmware download. > > Why would you do that? It seems expensive given that you obtain the > firmware and discard it immediately just to check it exists. Especially, > given that such a call can take 60 seconds to complete depending on > kernel config. > > Apart from that see minor comment below although I would seriously > reconsider this patch altogether. The idea behind this approach is simple: to quit early and to avoid starting asynchronous card boot if no firmware file exists. However I didn't realize that such a long delay may occur. What makes me worried is that the worst case scenario may happen if firmware actually exists: we make two calls of request_firmware, each of them taking long time. I agree that it makes a lot of sense to reimplement this approach requesting firmware only once. Will do for v2. Regards, Sergey
