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Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 13:22:34 +0100
From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
To: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
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Chaoming Li <chaoming_li@...lsil.com.cn>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...e.de>,
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Subject: Re: loading firmware while usermodehelper disabled.
Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 03:21:45 schrieb Alan Stern:
> On Sat, 31 Dec 2011, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > We are definitely going through do_unbind_rebind(). But I don't think
> > it matters why we got there. We seem to be calling probe() too early.
> > And we need to guarantee that a driver can request firmware in probe()
> >
> > So something has changed in the resume code path further up.
>
> For at least a year and a half, it has been true that rebinding takes
Yes, so I don't understand why we haven't been hitting this issue
all that time.
> place during the complete phase of system resume. Clearly that is too
> early to load firmware. When do you think we should do it instead?
I think we ought to delay until right after user space is unfrozen.
The devices are gone anyway, so we lose nothing but have the ability
to call helpers.
> And how should we keep track of which interfaces need rebinding?
I guess this calls for a brute force approach. We can kick khubd and have
it walk all busses checking for needs_binding.
> P.S.: Oliver, it looks like there's a bunch of dead code in
> usb_suspend_interface() and usb_resume_interface(). I don't see how
> either one can be executed with a driver that doesn't have both suspend
> and resume methods. Such cases should be filtered out when
> usb_suspend() calls do_unbind_rebind(). The only odd thing that can
> happen is when a driver doesn't support reset-resume. Do you agree?
I agree.
Regards
Oliver
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