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| author |   Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> | 2012-03-02 22:55:49 +0100 |
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| committer |   John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2012-03-05 15:53:59 -0500 |
| commit | e64a4b708fd5b719b54f7f969895b66bcba71486 (patch) | |
| tree | ae1b14679701533c2c65b364f325222fa5f34cea /drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c | |
| parent | brcm80211: fmac: initialize host interface drivers regardless result (diff) | |
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brcm80211: fmac: remove firmware requests from init_module syscall
As indicated in [1] on netdev mailing list drivers should not block
on the init_module() syscall. This patch defers the actual driver
registration to a workqueue so the init_module() syscall can complete
without delay.
[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/217729/
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c')
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