Drivers that load firmware from their probe routine have problems with
the latest versions of udev as they get timeouts while waiting for user
space to start. The problem is fixed by using request_firmware_nowait()
and delaying the start of mac80211 until the firmware is loaded.
To prevent the possibility of the driver being unloaded while the
firmware loading callback is still active, a completion queue entry
is used.
Also, to simplify the firmware loading procedure, this patch removes
the old, unofficial and confusing fallback firmware names. However,
they are still supported! So any user - who is still using them -
is hereby advised to link/rename their old firmware filenames:
isl3890usb to isl3886usb
isl3887usb_bare to isl3887usb
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
cleanup patch.
Use new __packed annotation in drivers/net/
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch redo the driver code so that p54usb no longer hangs
the kernel on resume.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Sometimes on unload or reboot the 3887 USB devices become stuck.
<usual log entry>
kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver p54usb
kernel: usb 2-10: (p54usb) reset failed! (-110)
kernel: p54usb: probe of 2-10:1.0 failed with error -110
[...]
and a physical unplug and replug was necessary.
However we should be able to do this in software as well,
without any user interaction.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Alan Stern found several flaws in p54usb's implementation and annotated:
"usb_kill_urb() and similar routines do not expect an URB's completion
routine to deallocate it. This is almost obvious -- if the URB is deallocated
before the completion routine returns then there's no way for usb_kill_urb
to detect when the URB actually is complete."
This patch addresses all known limitations in the old implementation and fixes
khub's "use-after-freed" hang, when SLUB debug's poisoning option is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds the necessary changes to support LM87 firmwares.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It's been a long time, but fullmac prism54 driver is still around...
I think we should rename every prism54* in order to avoid some
confusion about "what is actually what" in the future ;-).
Thanks-to: Maxi <maxi@daemonizer.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Larry Finger