linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v0 7/8] Input: ims-pcu: use firmware

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Date:	Thu, 28 Jul 2016 12:01:51 -0700
From:	Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>
To:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:	Daniel Wagner <wagi@...om.org>, Bastien Nocera <hadess@...ess.net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
	Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@...ery.com>, 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>
Subject: Re: [RFC v0 7/8] Input: ims-pcu: use firmware_stat instead of
 completion

On Thu 28 Jul 11:33 PDT 2016, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 09:55:11AM +0200, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> > From: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@...-carit.de>
> > 
[..]
> 
> Do not quite like it... I'd rather asynchronous request give out a
> firmware status pointer that could be used later on.
> 
> 	pcu->fw_st = request_firmware_async(IMS_PCU_FIRMWARE_NAME,
> 					    pcu,
> 					    ims_pcu_process_async_firmware);
> 	if (IS_ERR(pcu->fw_st))
> 		return PTR_ERR(pcu->fw_st);
> 
> 	....
> 
> 	fw_loading_wait(pcu->fw_st);
> 

In the remoteproc case (patch 6) this would clean up the code, rather
than replacing the completion API 1 to 1. I like it!

Regards,
Bjorn