From 32e31de5c37856dba7f174970806e38199e53d81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ming Lei Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:04:27 +0800 Subject: wireless: ath9k-htc: only load firmware in need It is not necessary to hold the firmware memory during the whole driver lifetime, and obviously it does waste memory. Suppose there are 4 ath9k-htc usb dongles working, kernel has to consume about 4*50KBytes RAM to cache firmware for all dongles. After applying the patch, kernel only caches one single firmware image in RAM for all ath9k-htc devices just during system suspend/resume cycle. When system is ready for loading firmware, ath9k-htc can request the loading from usersapce. During system resume, ath9k-htc still can load the firmware which was cached in kernel memory before system suspend. Cc: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: Jouni Malinen Cc: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan Cc: Senthil Balasubramanian Cc: "John W. Linville" Signed-off-by: Ming Lei Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.h | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.h') diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.h index 487ff65..51496e7 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.h +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.h @@ -85,12 +85,14 @@ struct cmd_buf { }; #define HIF_USB_START BIT(0) +#define HIF_USB_READY BIT(1) struct hif_device_usb { struct usb_device *udev; struct usb_interface *interface; const struct usb_device_id *usb_device_id; - const struct firmware *firmware; + const void *fw_data; + size_t fw_size; struct completion fw_done; struct htc_target *htc_handle; struct hif_usb_tx tx; -- cgit v1.1