From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Ian Minett <ian_minett@creativelabs.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/10] ALSA: Add firmware caching to CA0132 codec.
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:07:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5hehl9l74d.wl%tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121008080059.GA10604@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
At Mon, 8 Oct 2012 09:01:00 +0100,
Mark Brown wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 09:49:57AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > More generally, why is this driver different to other Linux drivers
> > > which don't normally cache the firmware?
>
> > They usually do, if it's needed in the normal resume path.
>
> It's not universally agreed that this is a wonderful idea, though...
Yeah, the situation around the firmware loader (still) sucks.
It's getting better slowly for now, but a few big steps are still
needed, e.g. for resolving the call of request_firmware() in the
module (or built-in) init code.
Takashi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-08 8:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-21 3:29 [PATCH 0/10] ALSA: Add DSP firmware loader (v3) Ian Minett
2012-09-21 3:29 ` [PATCH 01/10] ALSA: Make snd_sgbuf_get_{ptr|addr}() available for non-SG cases Ian Minett
2012-09-21 3:29 ` [PATCH 02/10] ALSA: Add new DSP loader callback routines Ian Minett
2012-09-21 3:29 ` [PATCH 03/10] ALSA: Add CA0132 register definitions file Ian Minett
2012-09-21 3:29 ` [PATCH 04/10] ALSA: Add DSP firmware enums and defs to CA0132 codec Ian Minett
2012-09-21 3:29 ` [PATCH 05/10] ALSA: Update CA0132 codec to load DSP firmware binary Ian Minett
2012-09-21 3:29 ` [PATCH 06/10] ALSA: Add firmware caching to CA0132 codec Ian Minett
2012-09-25 11:26 ` Mark Brown
2012-10-08 7:49 ` Takashi Iwai
2012-10-08 8:01 ` Mark Brown
2012-10-08 8:07 ` Takashi Iwai [this message]
2012-09-21 3:29 ` [PATCH 07/10] ALSA: Add comments and descriptions to CA0132 functions Ian Minett
2012-09-21 3:29 ` [PATCH 08/10] ALSA: Change return value for load_dsp_prepare() to -ENOSYS Ian Minett
2012-09-21 3:29 ` [PATCH 09/10] ALSA: Update chipio functions and DSP write wait timeout Ian Minett
2012-09-21 3:29 ` [PATCH 10/10] ALSA: Remove unnecessary struct hda_stream_format from CA0132 Ian Minett
2012-09-21 8:14 ` [PATCH 0/10] ALSA: Add DSP firmware loader (v3) Takashi Iwai
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