[RFC/RFT] b43: Load initial firmware file asynchronously

[Larry Finger]

On 12/08/2012 04:35 PM, Felix Janda wrote:
> On 12/08/12 at 04:19pm, Larry Finger wrote:
>>> Now I have a wlan0. Haven't tested it though yet. dmesg still prints some errors.
>>
>> That is not an error - I just left a diagnostic in the code. Please let me know
>> if it works. It should as we only touched the firmware loading.
>>
>> Is it OK if I use a "Reported-and-Tested by: <you>?
>>
>> Larry
>
> It's OK. Over christmas I'll do some thoroughful testing.
>
> The delay of 60 seconds will stay?

As this happens while user-space is getting started, there is little we can do. 
On my dual-core x86_64 system with each CPU running at 2 GHz, it takes 24 sec 
before the fw is loaded. At least other things happen in parallel.

Larry