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Message-ID: <1329403145.3915.10.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:39:05 +0100
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To: Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
Subject: Re: calling request_firmware() from module init will not work with
recent/future udev versions
On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 14:09 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> > When the firmware loading fails, the driver should unbind from the
> > device that it failed for, and the retrying behaviour doesn't change
> > (and requires a rebind)
> That helps. My driver was happily bound to the device until unloading
> the driver or unplugging the device.
Right, if it fails you should call device_release_driver()
johannes
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