From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: request_firmware() and in-kernel modules
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:07:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071021040757.GC24869@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4718EAEA.9000609@freescale.com>
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 12:35:38PM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> If my driver is compiled in-kernel (and I have module support turned off),
> can I still use request_firmware()?
Yes.
> If my driver is loaded before the file system drivers are loaded, how
> can a user process copy the firmware to the
> /sys/class/firwmare/.../data device?
I'd recommend using the non-blocking mode, that way, when userspace
finally gets running, it can handle the firmware events properly, and
your kernel code will have not timed out already.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-21 4:09 UTC|newest]
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2007-10-19 17:35 request_firmware() and in-kernel modules Timur Tabi
2007-10-21 4:07 ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-10-22 22:01 ` Timur Tabi
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