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    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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