[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] Give WiFi modules more time to settle

[Hante Meuleman]

It is a bit more than just changing request_firmware_nowait into 
request_firmware. The worker in core.c needs to be removed. The 
function brcmf_pcie_setup needs to be updated as it cannot call 
device_release_driver during probe. As a result 
brcmf_fw_get_firmwares_pcie has to return the error, which means 
the api for brcmf_fw_get_firmwares_pcie will change, that will 
mean usb and sdio needs to patched as well. So it isn't going to be 
a small patch, but it can be done. I just wonder if it is worth the effort. 
The patch needs to be maintained as well.

-----Original Message-----
From: Felix Fietkau [mailto:nbd at openwrt.org] 

On 2015-05-12 11:33, Hante Meuleman wrote:
> Understood, what is wifi detect using as input? Do the netdevs have to 
> be up? Where is the information that wifi app is reading coming from?
It looks for registered cfg80211 wiphys. It does not care about netdevs.

> brcmfmac uses different method for firmware loading. It is not as 
> easily patched as the ath10k driver. But I would like to know exactly 
> what wifi detect uses as input. As in case of brcmfmac I expect that 
> firmware loading will not be the only asynchronous "problem".
It should be enough to rework the request_firmware_nowait calls into
request_firmware calls.

> What would be easy is adding a delay of 2 seconds to the function 
> brcmfmac_module_init in core.c, but that won't guarantee it will work.
Still seems more fragile and hackish.

- Felix
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