> > 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.
That sounds pretty strange. Maybe when probe is called the driver model device (sysfs) is not completely setup, in any case not enough to support firmware loading? Ciao, Duncan. ------------------------------------------------------- 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
