[PATCH 2/2] ath10k: make core registering async

Kalle Valo kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com
Thu May 22 09:42:41 PDT 2014


Michal Kazior <michal.kazior at tieto.com> writes:

> If ath10k was built into the kernel it could stall
> booting for 120 seconds by default (60 seconds for
> each firmware API variant) waiting for firmware
> files before userspace was ready or filesystems
> mounted.
>
> Fix this by making the core registering
> asynchronous.
>
> This also shoves off about 1 second from boot time
> on most systems since the driver is now mostly
> initialized in a worker and modprobe takes very
> little time to complete.
>
> As a side effect there's no way to propagate
> registering errors to the pci subsystem but this
> probably isn't really necessary.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior at tieto.com>

[...]

> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c
> @@ -2758,8 +2758,6 @@ static void ath10k_pci_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev)
>  	if (!ar_pci)
>  		return;
>  
> -	tasklet_kill(&ar_pci->msi_fw_err);

Why this? That's not obvious to me.

-- 
Kalle Valo



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