On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 04:29:58PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > matthieu castet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
