linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v0 4/8] Input: goodix: use firmware

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Message-ID: <1469704952.6761.142.camel@hadess.net>
Date:	Thu, 28 Jul 2016 13:22:32 +0200
From:	Bastien Nocera <hadess@...ess.net>
To:	Daniel Wagner <wagi@...om.org>,
	Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
	Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@...ery.com>
Cc:	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@...-carit.de>,
	irina.tirdea@...el.com, octavian.purdila@...el.com
Subject: Re: [RFC v0 4/8] Input: goodix: use firmware_stat instead of
 completion

On Thu, 2016-07-28 at 09:55 +0200, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> From: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@...-carit.de>
> 
> Loading firmware is an operation many drivers implement in various
> ways
> around the completion API. And most of them do it almost in the same
> way. Let's reuse the firmware_stat API which is used also by the
> firmware_class loader. Apart of streamlining the firmware loading
> states
> we also document it slightly better.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@...-carit.de>

Irina added and tested that feature, so best for her to comment on
this, as I don't have any hardware that would use this feature.

Cheers