linux-kernel - Re: udev breakages - was: Re: Need of an ".async_probe()" type of callback at driver's core - Was: Re: [PATCH] [media] drxk: change it to use request_firmware

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFwpmUPF4MR+rVJ=MOYGseWGN9DvMTivbwxQ4gh_izrryg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 3 Oct 2012 10:00:43 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>,
	Lennart Poettering <lennart@...ttering.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kay Sievers <kay@...hat.com>,
	Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michael Krufky <mkrufky@...uxtv.org>,
	Ivan Kalvachev <ikalvachev@...il.com>
Subject: Re: udev breakages - was: Re: Need of an ".async_probe()" type of
 callback at driver's core - Was: Re: [PATCH] [media] drxk: change it to use request_firmware_nowait()

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Anyway. Attached is a really stupid patch that tries to do the "direct
> firmware load" as suggested by Ivan. It has not been tested very
> extensively at all (but I did test that it loaded the brcmsmac
> firmware images on my laptop so it has the *potential* to work).

Oh, and I stupidly put the new functions next to the builtin firmware
loading function, which means that the patch only works if you have
CONFIG_FW_LOADER enabled.

That's bogus, and the functions should be moved out of that #ifdef,
but I don't think it should hurt testing.

                    Linus
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