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Re: How to request firmware during module init?

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On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 11:40 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> ath6kl needs to request the firmware from user space during module init
> (or to be exact from sdio probe, but it's almost the same thing) and
> boot hardware to get some settings etc before it registers itself to
> cfg80211. What's the proper way to handle this?
> 
> I noticed that when I compile ath6kl into kernel boot fails on my x86
> box as firmware is not available because user space is not ready.

We do an async request, once it comes back we register with mac80211.

johannes

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