From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger•net>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver•com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy•org>,
netdev@vger•kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger•kernel.org,
Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm•no>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical•com>,
Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom•com>
Subject: Re: calling request_firmware() from module init will not work with recent/future udev versions
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:20:15 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F11C75F.9030105@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120114175837.GA8504@tuxdriver.com>
On 01/14/2012 11:58 AM, John W. Linville wrote:
> Kay, thanks for the reports. Drivers should definitely be loading
> firmware at IFF_UP time.
As the maintainer for several drivers with this problem, I need to make some
changes. What call from mac80211 corresponds to IFF_UP?
I have looked into using asynchronous firmware loading, but I have not yet found
a good implementation.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-14 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-14 15:25 calling request_firmware() from module init will not work with recent/future udev versions Kay Sievers
2012-01-14 17:58 ` John W. Linville
2012-01-14 18:20 ` Larry Finger [this message]
[not found] ` <4F11C75F.9030105-tQ5ms3gMjBLk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-14 19:59 ` Arend van Spriel
[not found] ` <4F11DEB8.7010708-dY08KVG/lbpWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-14 20:13 ` Larry Finger
[not found] ` <4F11E1CE.2050008-tQ5ms3gMjBLk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-14 20:15 ` Emmanuel Grumbach
2012-01-14 18:45 ` Larry Finger
2012-01-14 19:26 ` Tom Gundersen
2012-01-15 10:02 ` Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <1326621743.3448.1.camel-8upI4CBIZJIJvtFkdXX2HixXY32XiHfO@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-15 15:33 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-16 8:57 ` Johannes Berg
2012-01-16 12:05 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-16 12:16 ` Johannes Berg
2012-07-19 10:46 ` Kay Sievers
2012-07-24 14:16 ` Johannes Berg
2012-07-24 14:32 ` Tom Gundersen
2012-07-24 17:50 ` Kay Sievers
[not found] ` <1326704259.3510.3.camel-8upI4CBIZJIJvtFkdXX2HixXY32XiHfO@public.gmane.org>
2012-02-16 12:04 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-02-16 12:38 ` Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <1329395881.3915.7.camel-8upI4CBIZJIJvtFkdXX2HixXY32XiHfO@public.gmane.org>
2012-02-16 13:09 ` Arend van Spriel
[not found] ` <4F3D0012.9070808-dY08KVG/lbpWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2012-02-16 14:39 ` Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <CAPXgP11iT9K2KcDCJvw_druf5qdNjs0jLfrbpS7CcYh5vXrz_w-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-02-20 17:43 ` Arend van Spriel
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