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)? Because other drivers may hit this problem (whatever it is) and fixes in core kernel might be needed. If we just work around stuff, core kernel remains unfixed... ------------------------------------------------------- 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 _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
