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

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Date:	Thu, 28 Jul 2016 13:59:00 +0200
From:	Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@...-carit.de>
To:	Bastien Nocera <hadess@...ess.net>, 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>,
	<irina.tirdea@...el.com>, <octavian.purdila@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v0 4/8] Input: goodix: use firmware_stat instead of
 completion

On 07/28/2016 01:22 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 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.

In case you have any comments on the API, let me know. I'll add Irina to 
the Cc list in the next version.

cheers,
daniel