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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 17:12:00 -0600
Subject: [RFC/RFT] b43: Load initial firmware file asynchronously
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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>

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