linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] request_firmware: skip timeout if userspace was not notified

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Message-ID: <20070807151535.1b3dc050@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 7 Aug 2007 15:15:35 +0200
From:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc:	Javier Pello <javier.pello@...c.es>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] request_firmware: skip timeout if userspace was not
 notified

On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:57:52 +0200,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org> wrote:

> The real fix would be to change the driver not to block in the firmware
> request and use async version of firmware loading.

I guess some drivers want to fail the probe if they can't get the
firmware. This sounds like the "some parts of ->probe may take ages and
block everything else" problem again...
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