On Friday 31 October 2008 14:51:36 Larry Finger wrote: > The current version of the rtl8187 driver contains a large number of msleep() > commands that cause initialization to take a long time. This series of patches > include revisions that were found by looking at the latest version of the > vendor's driver (rtl8187B_linux_26.1036.0708.2008), and others that were found > to be OK with testing. > > To keep each of the patches relatively small, these changes are split into 6 > parts. The changes in them are as follows: > > 1. Remove all delays of greater than 1 sec. > 2. Remove the msleep(1) that immediately follow calls to rtl8225_write_phy_ofdm(). > 3. Remove the msleep(1) that immediately follow calls to rtl8225_write_phy_cck(). > 4. Remove the msleep(1) that immediately follow calls to rtl8225_write(). > 5. Remove the nsleep() calls from rtl8187_write_phy(), rtl8225_write_bitbang(), > and rtl8225_write_8051(). > 6. Remove the msleep(10) that preceeds a channel change. > > Before these changes, routine rtl8187b_init_hw() took 15.82 sec to execute. It > now takes 3.76 sec. I tested here the 6 patches, and didn't found problems with them (testing with two 8187 models, one an old 8187L and other an 8187B). Tested-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- -- []'s Herton -- 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
