From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757747AbYEYSTm (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2008 14:19:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755461AbYEYSTe (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2008 14:19:34 -0400 Received: from vs166246.vserver.de ([62.75.166.246]:60112 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755250AbYEYSTd (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2008 14:19:33 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Marcel Holtmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 20:18:58 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) Cc: Johannes Berg , David Woodhouse , Sam Ravnborg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aoliva@redhat.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Abhay Salunke , kay.sievers@vrfy.org, Takashi Iwai References: <1211550282.28967.8.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <1211722835.17151.24.camel@johannes.berg> <3B90BEFD-148C-47DF-9437-500109907976@holtmann.org> In-Reply-To: <3B90BEFD-148C-47DF-9437-500109907976@holtmann.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805252018.58627.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 25 May 2008 20:12:41 Marcel Holtmann wrote: > So you actually do know how request_firmware() actually works right > now? You need to change the firmware_class implementation and API to > give it an extra parameter to allow any kind if simultaneous loading > within one driver. Having the FIRMWARE as environment variable is > actually suboptimal. You want to have the FIRMWARE environment > variable as bus_id for the firmware struct device object. Can you explain _why_ we want to have this as bus_id? I don't really understand that. -- Greetings Michael.