From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel Firmware Loading
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 17:54:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051108175433.GA14839@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4365DBD9.2040407@ukonline.co.uk>
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 01:16:25PM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> The preferred solution for the future seems to be the conversion to
> request_firmware_nowait() which doesn't sleep. However, the only driver
> in 2.6.14-mm1 actually using this function is drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c.
Yes, that is the proper solution, all uses of the request_firmware()
call should go away, and I'm trying to prevent any new uses of that call
from going into the kernel tree.
Delaying 10 seconds in the probe() callback is not acceptable.
thanks,
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-08 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-31 8:54 Kernel Firmware Loading Andrew Benton
2005-10-31 9:37 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2005-10-31 10:04 ` Andrew Benton
2005-10-31 10:59 ` Duncan Sands
2005-10-31 10:59 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2005-10-31 11:08 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-10-31 11:18 ` Duncan Sands
2005-10-31 11:50 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-10-31 13:10 ` Kay Sievers
2005-10-31 13:27 ` Duncan Sands
2005-10-31 14:35 ` Kay Sievers
2005-10-31 14:41 ` Duncan Sands
2005-10-31 14:54 ` Kay Sievers
2005-10-31 16:29 ` linas
2005-10-31 16:33 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-10-31 21:15 ` Andrew Benton
2005-11-01 9:48 ` Duncan Sands
2005-11-01 11:15 ` Andrew Benton
2005-11-01 15:56 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2005-11-01 16:59 ` linas
2005-11-01 21:19 ` Andrew Benton
2005-11-02 2:09 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2005-11-02 6:20 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2005-11-02 6:28 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2005-11-02 23:22 ` Andrew Benton
2005-11-03 8:08 ` Duncan Sands
2005-11-04 14:46 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2005-11-04 14:52 ` Duncan Sands
2005-11-04 15:14 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2005-11-07 15:48 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-11-08 8:16 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2005-11-08 17:54 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-11-08 18:37 ` Patrick Mansfield
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