From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 01:08:19 +0000 Subject: Re: Rework of request firmware Message-Id: <20050323010818.GA26733@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <9e473391050319200625032789@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9e473391050319200625032789@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 03:37:00AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 15:39 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:25:17 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > > > Could you please define the requirements for that subsystem _first_ and > > > make sure that everything we currently know of is covered before adding > > > stuff to the core. I'm pretty sure that this will have to change several > > > times before we get that right. > > > > The base device support is missing two things I need: > > 1) some mechanism to run the POST program > > I've put that on the list below. > > > 2) subdirectories under class_device for hotplug monitors > > Childs of class devices is somewhere on Greg's list, I think. :) > Don't know how close we are to allow that. Greg? Closer than we were last week, now that I have a lot of the class rework done :) thanks, greg k-h > Questions: > ===== > o How do we reprobe a device if we can't unload the module? Kick it from userspace. See pci for an example of how to do this. > o From which DEVPATH should the requests originate from? > The module itself in sysfs, the physical device, the class > device? Or stick with with our own temporary class device > for the requests? I think the "physical device" or whatever it is represented by in the sysfs device tree. > o Do we need any timeout? If yes, how is that to be handled? Yes. Don't know. > o Will all users/probers be able to schedule its work > until the request comes back from userspace? They had better :) thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: 2005 Windows Mobile Application Contest Submit applications for Windows Mobile(tm)-based Pocket PCs or Smartphones for the chance to win $25,000 and application distribution. Enter today at http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idh82&alloc_id148&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel