Kay, > These drivers need to be fixed to load their firmware during ifup, > which would be the most flexible solution. That way, it should also > work if the driver is built-in, or is loaded from initramfs and no > firmware is available. > Alternatively, the firmware request should be able to use the aync > firmware_request API and not the blocking one. Will udev now also return the async load only after root is booted if it can't be satisfied earlier? There are a number of devices, particularly wireless, that need firmware before they can register with mac80211 for capability advertisement reasons. johannes -- 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
