From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Cc: Mourad De Clerck <bugs-wireless@aquazul.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: firmware loading fails for b43 using linux 3.4?
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 14:36:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FBE8DC3.9010207@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FBE654C.2040206@broadcom.com>
On 05/24/2012 11:43 AM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>
> Is there no event that you can use to determine when user-space is
> available? In the original udev discussion it was suggested to use
> IFF_UP, but I did not find anyone saying what the equivalent mac80211
> callback should be.
>
> Also this issue can occur when the firmware is only available on the
> real root, but the ramdisk contains the b43 module.
The callback from request_firmware_nowait() seems to be about as good an
indicator as any.
Yes, having the b43 module in the ramdisk would also cause a problem.
Larry
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-24 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-23 23:49 firmware loading fails for b43 using linux 3.4? Mourad De Clerck
2012-05-24 1:13 ` Larry Finger
2012-05-24 2:44 ` Mourad De Clerck
2012-05-24 3:03 ` Larry Finger
2012-05-24 4:38 ` Mourad De Clerck
2012-05-24 13:25 ` Larry Finger
2012-05-24 16:41 ` Mourad De Clerck
2012-05-24 16:43 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-05-24 19:36 ` Larry Finger [this message]
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