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    • Johannes Berg's avatar
      iwlwifi: load firmware asynchronously before mac80211 registration · b08dfd04
      Johannes Berg authored
      At the wireless summit in Portland we discussed a way of
      loading firmware asynchronously from ->probe() before
      registration to mac80211, in order to register with the
      wireless subsystems with complete information in cases
      where firmware is required to know parameters.
      
      This is not yet the case in iwlwifi, but for some new
      features we're working on it will be the case since
      those will only be supported by new firmware images.
      
      Hence, to start with, convert iwlwifi to load firmware
      asynchronously from probe, unbinding the device when
      firmware loading fails, and only registering with the
      wireless subsystems after firmware has been loaded
      successfully.
      
      Future patches will hook into this to register the
      new firmware capabilities, depending on the firmware
      API version.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarReinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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