Re: [PATCH] Eagle and ADI 930 usb adsl modem driver

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 04:29:58PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote:
> matthieu castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Duncan,
> > 
> > Duncan Sands wrote:
> > > Hi Andrew,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > this code looks like a 'orrible hack to work around a common problem
> > > with USB modem's of this type: if the modem is plugged in while the
> > > system boots, the driver may look for firmware before the filesystem
> > 
> > No, it wasn't the problem, even when loading with insmod/modprobe the 
> > timeout occurs on some configurations. For example on 
> > http://atm.eagle-usb.org/wakka.php?wiki=TestUEagleAtmBaud123, you could 
> > see the 'firmware ueagle-atm/eagleIII.fw is not available' error.
> > 
> > It is only happen for pre-firmware modem (uea_load_firmware) ie where we 
> > just do a request_firmware in the probe without any initialisation before.
> > So the problem seems to appear when we do a request_firmware too early 
> > in the usb_probe.
> > 
> 
> Can you please work out exactly what's happening and come up with a more
> solid solution than msleep(1)?

The fix is to use the async firmware interface, no sleeping or timeouts
needed.

thanks,

greg k-h