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Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:48:06 +0300
From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
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Subject: Re: How to request firmware during module init?
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On 09/06/2011 11:44 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 11:40 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> ath6kl needs to request the firmware from user space during module init
>> (or to be exact from sdio probe, but it's almost the same thing) and
>> boot hardware to get some settings etc before it registers itself to
>> cfg80211. What's the proper way to handle this?
>>
>> I noticed that when I compile ath6kl into kernel boot fails on my x86
>> box as firmware is not available because user space is not ready.
> 
> We do an async request, once it comes back we register with mac80211.

I take it you mean request_firmware_nowait(). I'll use that also.

Thanks!

Kalle