Subject: Re: calling request_firmware() from module init will not work with recent/future udev versions

From: Larry Finger <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:20:15 -0600

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