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

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Message-ID: <20070807163848.2ce04a9a@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 7 Aug 2007 16:38:48 +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 16:08:25 +0200,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org> wrote:

> Nope, you would just fulfill in a completely generic way all outstanding
> requests when you are ready. All requests are all nicely grouped and
> visible in sysfs. There would be no need of coding your own device
> specific rebind. No timeout is needed or wanted, all requests would stay
> until userspace has handled them successfully or canceled them.

Hm, that would mean that no build-in driver may call
request_firmware(), only request_firmware_nowait() with no timeout.
Likely drivers that want to fail probe for no firmware will need to
split their probe functions.
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