From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Jack Stone <jwjstone@fastmail.fm>,
Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
Chaoming Li <chaoming_li@realsil.com.cn>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
USB list <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Wireless List <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: loading firmware while usermodehelper disabled.
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 12:24:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120103122424.GA24367@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFxnOBJZBb5KC7HC3z9Whk585SaHeCx9zyie3MMsfsvExw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 09:53:46PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 09:45:58PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> >
> >> Wait a second. Why does isight_firmware bind at this time? Binding to
> >> new devices is handled by khubd, which doesn't start running again
> >> until after the resume is finished (the device appears to be new
> >> because its descriptors have changed). At that point there should be
> >> no trouble reloading the firmware.
> >
> > Then why are we getting this warning? The firmware is only loaded in the
> > probe function.
>
> The USB suspend/resume function does that "unbind/rebind" dance, and
> that causes a "device_attach()". Which causes a probe() to be called.
>
> Should it do that? I think not, not if the ID's haven't changed. But I
> don't know the USB layer all that well.
The IDs will have changed due to the firmware falling out.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-03 12:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-30 23:54 loading firmware while usermodehelper disabled Dave Jones
2011-12-31 0:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-31 0:40 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-12-31 15:33 ` Alan Stern
2011-12-31 15:59 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-01-01 2:21 ` Alan Stern
2012-01-01 12:22 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-01-01 16:17 ` Alan Stern
2012-01-01 16:25 ` Michael Büsch
2012-01-01 20:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-01 21:27 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-01-01 21:39 ` Michael Büsch
2012-01-02 3:33 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-01-02 7:56 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-01-02 4:17 ` Marek Vasut
2012-01-02 5:35 ` Gábor Stefanik
2012-01-02 8:38 ` Marek Vasut
2012-01-02 16:54 ` Alan Stern
2012-01-02 20:41 ` Jack Stone
2012-01-02 20:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-02 20:55 ` Jack Stone
2012-01-02 21:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-02 21:09 ` Jack Stone
2012-01-02 21:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-02 21:31 ` Jack Stone
2012-01-02 21:52 ` Marek Vasut
2012-01-02 21:57 ` Jack Stone
2012-01-02 22:31 ` Marek Vasut
2012-01-02 23:25 ` Jack Stone
2012-01-03 0:31 ` Marek Vasut
2012-01-03 0:44 ` Jack Stone
2012-01-03 0:58 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-03 7:17 ` Marek Vasut
2012-01-03 7:41 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-01-03 0:35 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-03 0:50 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-02 21:19 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-01-02 21:26 ` Jack Stone
2012-01-03 0:42 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-03 11:57 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-01-03 12:19 ` Jack Stone
2012-01-03 13:20 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-03 13:30 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-01-03 13:36 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-02 21:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-02 21:50 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-01-02 22:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-02 22:12 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-01-02 22:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-02 22:29 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-01-02 22:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-02 23:00 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-01-02 23:31 ` Jack Stone
2012-01-03 0:13 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-01-03 0:20 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-03 0:37 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-01-03 0:22 ` Jack Stone
2012-01-03 0:31 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-03 0:41 ` Jack Stone
2012-01-03 0:38 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-01-03 0:47 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-03 0:18 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-03 8:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-03 2:45 ` Alan Stern
2012-01-03 3:25 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-01-03 5:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-03 11:50 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-01-03 15:16 ` Alan Stern
2012-01-03 12:24 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2012-01-03 16:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-03 15:09 ` Alan Stern
2012-01-03 9:16 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2012-01-03 9:16 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2012-01-03 9:24 ` david
2012-01-03 13:43 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-03 14:12 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2012-01-03 0:00 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-02 23:50 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-02 23:53 ` Alan Cox
2011-12-31 16:27 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-12-31 14:20 ` Martin Schleier
2011-12-31 18:39 ` Marek Vasut
2012-01-01 9:48 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-01-01 9:54 ` Marek Vasut
2012-01-01 12:28 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-01-01 16:32 ` Marek Vasut
2012-01-01 17:06 ` Marek Vasut
2012-01-01 20:39 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-01 20:50 ` Michael Büsch
2012-01-02 3:24 ` Marek Vasut
2012-01-02 3:29 ` Marek Vasut
2012-01-01 3:49 ` Larry Finger
2012-01-01 22:45 ` Jack Stone
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-12-31 15:01 drahemmaps
2011-12-31 19:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-31 20:15 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-12-31 20:26 ` Linus Torvalds
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