From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Felix Janda <felix.janda@posteo.de>
Cc: John W Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
b43-dev <b43-dev@lists.infradead.org>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [RFC/RFT] b43: Load initial firmware file asynchronously
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 17:12:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C3C940.3060704@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121208223509.GA21258@gauss>
On 12/08/2012 04:35 PM, Felix Janda wrote:
> On 12/08/12 at 04:19pm, Larry Finger wrote:
>>> Now I have a wlan0. Haven't tested it though yet. dmesg still prints some errors.
>>
>> That is not an error - I just left a diagnostic in the code. Please let me know
>> if it works. It should as we only touched the firmware loading.
>>
>> Is it OK if I use a "Reported-and-Tested by: <you>?
>>
>> Larry
>
> It's OK. Over christmas I'll do some thoroughful testing.
>
> The delay of 60 seconds will stay?
As this happens while user-space is getting started, there is little we can do.
On my dual-core x86_64 system with each CPU running at 2 GHz, it takes 24 sec
before the fw is loaded. At least other things happen in parallel.
Larry
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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Felix Janda <felix.janda@posteo.de>
Cc: John W Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
b43-dev <b43-dev@lists.infradead.org>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT] b43: Load initial firmware file asynchronously
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 17:12:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C3C940.3060704@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121208223509.GA21258@gauss>
On 12/08/2012 04:35 PM, Felix Janda wrote:
> On 12/08/12 at 04:19pm, Larry Finger wrote:
>>> Now I have a wlan0. Haven't tested it though yet. dmesg still prints some errors.
>>
>> That is not an error - I just left a diagnostic in the code. Please let me know
>> if it works. It should as we only touched the firmware loading.
>>
>> Is it OK if I use a "Reported-and-Tested by: <you>?
>>
>> Larry
>
> It's OK. Over christmas I'll do some thoroughful testing.
>
> The delay of 60 seconds will stay?
As this happens while user-space is getting started, there is little we can do.
On my dual-core x86_64 system with each CPU running at 2 GHz, it takes 24 sec
before the fw is loaded. At least other things happen in parallel.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-08 23:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-06 3:47 [RFC/RFT] b43: Load initial firmware file asynchronously Larry Finger
2012-12-08 14:30 ` Felix Janda
2012-12-08 14:30 ` Felix Janda
2012-12-08 17:15 ` Larry Finger
2012-12-08 17:15 ` Larry Finger
2012-12-08 17:56 ` Felix Janda
2012-12-08 17:56 ` Felix Janda
2012-12-08 19:48 ` Larry Finger
2012-12-08 19:48 ` Larry Finger
[not found] ` <20121208202435.GA14973@gauss>
[not found] ` <50C3AF0C.8000607@lwfinger.net>
2012-12-08 21:41 ` Felix Janda
2012-12-08 21:41 ` Felix Janda
2012-12-08 22:19 ` Larry Finger
2012-12-08 22:19 ` Larry Finger
2012-12-08 22:35 ` Felix Janda
2012-12-08 22:35 ` Felix Janda
2012-12-08 23:12 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2012-12-08 23:12 ` Larry Finger
2012-12-09 7:44 ` Felix Janda
2012-12-09 7:44 ` Felix Janda
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