On 09/06/2011 11:44 AM, Johannes Berg wrote: > 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. I take it you mean request_firmware_nowait(). I'll use that also. Thanks! Kalle -- 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
