linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2 v3] ALSA: hda - Deferred probing with request_firmware

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Date:	Thu, 9 Aug 2012 16:38:27 +0200
From:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de>
To:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:	David Henningsson <david.henningsson@...onical.com>,
	alsa-devel@...a-project.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v3] ALSA: hda - Deferred probing with
 request_firmware_nowait()

On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 04:34:42PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Thu, 9 Aug 2012 16:25:36 +0200,
> Thierry Reding wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 04:10:55PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > For processing the firmware handling properly for built-in kernels,
> > > implement an asynchronous firmware loading with
> > > request_firmware_nowait().  This means that the codec probing is
> > > deferred when the patch option is specified.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
> > > ---
> > > v1->v2: drop superfluous chip->probe_deferred field
> > > v2->v3: fix missing chip->fw; renamed the variable to "probe_now"
> > > 
> > >  sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c |  2 +-
> > >  sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> > >  2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Tested-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de>
> 
> Thanks, now pushed to sound git tree for-next branch.
> As mentioned earlier, this is planned for 3.7 merge.
> 
> Also, the patches are found in topic/hda-probe-defer branch so that it
> can be easily pulled to 3.6 kernel cleanly.

Great! Thanks,
Thierry

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