Messages in this thread | | | From | Duncan Sands <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Eagle and ADI 930 usb adsl modem driver | Date | Wed, 2 Nov 2005 08:45:54 +0100 |
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> > 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,
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