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Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 17:11:19 -0500
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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To: John Talbut <jt@dpets.co.uk>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Firmware loading with static kernel and initramfs
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On 06/29/2014 02:19 PM, John Talbut wrote:
> I originally had the problem with a Broadcom BCM43225 wireless.  This was with a
> 3.8 kernel.  This was solved by a patch to the kernel brcmsmac driver and this
> is still working with a 3.14 kernel.

What sort of patch was that? Driver brcmsmac is still using request_firmware().

> Currently I have the problem with an Intel Centrino Wireless-N 130.  The problem
> was present with a 3.11 kernel and currently with a 3.14 kernel.  udev version
> 204-5linuxmint.

The current Intel drivers all use request_firmware_nowait(), but I'm not sure 
when they were changed.

> A friend seems to have the problem with a Realtek 8129se wireless but we are
> still checking out that this is the problem.

To my knowledge, there is no Realtek 8129se driver. Do you mean rtl8192se? If 
so, that one has used request_firmware_nowait() for some time.

Larry