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authorCiaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>2008-04-29 00:59:35 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-29 08:06:05 -0700
commit9a3be324e3d9da08219d81d6765f445a726cf962 (patch)
treee17748b7ff5a40c939713286f706bcff0e29d456 /drivers/base
parent66e106010db689fdbdbd7ae738b115dae5f521e4 (diff)
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firmware loader: printk when requesting firmware
Before requesting firmware, printk a message saying what we're requesting. This makes it easier to see what's going on, and provides an explanation for the huge silent delay that one would otherwise get after accidentally building ipw2200 as a non-module. Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--drivers/base/firmware_class.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
index 1fef7df8c9d6..9fd4a8534146 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
@@ -396,6 +396,8 @@ _request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p, const char *name,
if (!firmware_p)
return -EINVAL;
+ printk(KERN_INFO "firmware: requesting %s\n", name);
+
*firmware_p = firmware = kzalloc(sizeof(*firmware), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!firmware) {
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: kmalloc(struct firmware) failed\n",