On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 08:02:18PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > If loading via user space, timeout or not depends on userspace, > at least udev won't timeout on non-existent firmware image.
This may be a mdev or old udev thing... it's definitely prevelant. > Also looks request_firmware_nowait() is better for the case, _nowait() > can avoid unnecessary delay and speedup firmware loading if there > are more than one firmware to load. It doesn't really help as the ABI is such that you can only have one request_firmware() in play at once (unless this changed since I last looked at it). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
