Probe-defer and loading firmware

[Arun KS]

Hi Jon,

You can use request_firmware_nowait

Thanks,
Arun

On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 8:04 PM, jonsmirl at gmail.com <jonsmirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just tried building the Broadcom wifi driver into my kernel which
> didn't work.  The problem is that it needs to load firmware and the
> filesystem with the firmware on it hasn't been mounted yet.  The
> firmware is on my rootfs and I had rootwait on the kernel command
> line.
>
> Is it possible to get this to work? Shouldn't request-firmware do a
> probe-defer type operation until after rootwait completes?
>
> --
> Jon Smirl
> jonsmirl at gmail.com
>
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