Probe-defer and loading firmware

Probe-defer and loading firmware

[jonsmirl at gmail.com]

I just tried building the Broadcom wifi driver into my kernel which
didn't work.  The problem is that it needs to load firmware and the
filesystem with the firmware on it hasn't been mounted yet.  The
firmware is on my rootfs and I had rootwait on the kernel command
line.

Is it possible to get this to work? Shouldn't request-firmware do a
probe-defer type operation until after rootwait completes?

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl at gmail.com

Probe-defer and loading firmware

[Arun KS]

Hi Jon,

You can use request_firmware_nowait

Thanks,
Arun

On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 8:04 PM, jonsmirl at gmail.com <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just tried building the Broadcom wifi driver into my kernel which
> didn't work.  The problem is that it needs to load firmware and the
> filesystem with the firmware on it hasn't been mounted yet.  The
> firmware is on my rootfs and I had rootwait on the kernel command
> line.
>
> Is it possible to get this to work? Shouldn't request-firmware do a
> probe-defer type operation until after rootwait completes?
>
> --
> Jon Smirl
> jonsmirl at gmail.com
>
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