firmware_class: skip timeout in request_firmware during boot

[Charlie Brady]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Javier Pello wrote:

> The situation is the following: I have a device that requires firmware
> to be loaded during initialisation. However, the driver is built into
> the kernel, so it tries to initialise before the root filesystem is
> mounted.

Building the driver into the kernel seems an odd decision in this 
circumstance...