iwlwifi: mvm: prevent the NIC to be powered at driver load time.

Some NICs aren't allowed to be powered up at driver load time.
Fix it, and move the external NVM loading from driver load time to
driver up time (parsing the external nvm file remains at driver load time).

Signed-off-by: Eytan Lifshitz <eytan.lifshitz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/ops.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/ops.c
index a8af7aceeac..d232e83994d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/ops.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/ops.c
@@ -409,24 +409,32 @@ iwl_op_mode_mvm_start(struct iwl_trans *trans, const struct iwl_cfg *cfg,
 	IWL_INFO(mvm, "Detected %s, REV=0x%X\n",
 		 mvm->cfg->name, mvm->trans->hw_rev);
 
-	err = iwl_trans_start_hw(mvm->trans);
-	if (err)
-		goto out_free;
-
 	iwl_mvm_tt_initialize(mvm);
 
-	mutex_lock(&mvm->mutex);
-	err = iwl_run_init_mvm_ucode(mvm, true);
-	mutex_unlock(&mvm->mutex);
-	/* returns 0 if successful, 1 if success but in rfkill */
-	if (err < 0 && !iwlmvm_mod_params.init_dbg) {
-		IWL_ERR(mvm, "Failed to run INIT ucode: %d\n", err);
-		goto out_free;
-	}
+	/*
+	 * If the NVM exists in an external file,
+	 * there is no need to unnecessarily power up the NIC at driver load
+	 */
+	if (iwlwifi_mod_params.nvm_file) {
+			iwl_nvm_init(mvm);
+	} else {
+		err = iwl_trans_start_hw(mvm->trans);
+		if (err)
+			goto out_free;
+
+		mutex_lock(&mvm->mutex);
+		err = iwl_run_init_mvm_ucode(mvm, true);
+		mutex_unlock(&mvm->mutex);
+		/* returns 0 if successful, 1 if success but in rfkill */
+		if (err < 0 && !iwlmvm_mod_params.init_dbg) {
+			IWL_ERR(mvm, "Failed to run INIT ucode: %d\n", err);
+			goto out_free;
+		}
 
-	/* Stop the hw after the ALIVE and NVM has been read */
-	if (!iwlmvm_mod_params.init_dbg)
-		iwl_trans_stop_hw(mvm->trans, false);
+		/* Stop the hw after the ALIVE and NVM has been read */
+		if (!iwlmvm_mod_params.init_dbg)
+			iwl_trans_stop_hw(mvm->trans, false);
+	}
 
 	scan_size = sizeof(struct iwl_scan_cmd) +
 		mvm->fw->ucode_capa.max_probe_length +
@@ -457,7 +465,8 @@ iwl_op_mode_mvm_start(struct iwl_trans *trans, const struct iwl_cfg *cfg,
  out_free:
 	iwl_phy_db_free(mvm->phy_db);
 	kfree(mvm->scan_cmd);
-	iwl_trans_stop_hw(trans, true);
+	if (!iwlwifi_mod_params.nvm_file)
+		iwl_trans_stop_hw(trans, true);
 	ieee80211_free_hw(mvm->hw);
 	return NULL;
 }