From: Ciaran McCreesh Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:59:35 +0000 (-0700) Subject: firmware loader: printk when requesting firmware X-Git-Url: http://git.lede-project.org./?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9a3be324e3d9da08219d81d6765f445a726cf962;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fblogic.git 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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- 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",