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

Felix Janda felix.janda at posteo.de
Sun Dec 9 02:44:50 EST 2012


On 12/08/12 at 05:12pm, Larry Finger wrote:
> > 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

Ok. (The behavior is now the same as if the firmware was built into the kernel.)

So thanks again for the fix.

Felix



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