These patches change 5 drivers that are now loading firmware from the probe
routine. As each of them has the possibility of loading more than one
file, the method of using request_firmware_nowait() has some difficulty,
as it gets duplicate names in sysfs when the requests are launched in
parallel. When the callback routine is used to launch a second request,
the structure gets messy, particularly with b43legacy, which loads 4
firmware files for some hardware. My solution is to create a delayed work
queue that is started in the probe routine with a delay of one second. The
routine that is triggered does the normal request_firmware() calls
and starts mac80211 when the firmware is available.
The patches for b43legacy, b43, and p54usb have been tested. Those for
p54pci and p54spi are only compile tested.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Larry Finger (5):
b43legacy: Load firmware from work queue instead of from probe
routine
b43: Load firmware from a work queue and not from the probe routine
p54usb: Load firmware from work queue and not from probe routine
p54pci: Load firmware from work queue and not from probe routine
p54spi: Load firmware from work queue and not from probe routine
drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.h | 3 +
drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c | 38 +++++----
drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/b43legacy.h | 3 +
drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c | 32 +++++---
drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54pci.c | 66 +++++++++------
drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54pci.h | 1 +
drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54spi.c | 38 ++++++---
drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54spi.h | 1 +
drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54usb.c | 120 +++++++++++++---------------
drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54usb.h | 1 +
10 files changed, 174 insertions(+), 129 deletions(-)
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1.7.7
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