Return-path: Received: from mail-gy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.160.174]:46416 "EHLO mail-gy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756715Ab2BNQ5h (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:57:37 -0500 Received: by ghrr11 with SMTP id r11so133054ghr.19 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:57:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F3A927D.2050708@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20120214_175740_737694_71C77F80) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:57:33 -0600 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johannes Berg CC: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT 0/5] Firmware load change for various wireless drivers References: <1329161826-11135-1-git-send-email-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20120213_203726_939695_C63C1EE3) <1329217015.3941.8.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> <4F3A8D30.3040804@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20120214_173532_491396_64EB4078) <1329237440.3941.15.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> In-Reply-To: <1329237440.3941.15.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 02/14/2012 10:37 AM, Johannes Berg wrote: > > I'm not even sure they've done *anything* until now, so I'm not sure it > matters. I believe the behavioural change that prompted these changes > will actually make it easier to implement the delay in a matter that > covers both this and async loading, so you may well be safe, I haven't > really understood the full details of the change that prompted all this. I do not think the changes have been merged into any distro yet, but I have gotten feedback converning udev timeouts from the rtlwifi drivers when booting. That is the reason I'm trying to get ahead of the curve now. Larry