From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 17:54:33 +0000 Subject: Re: Kernel Firmware Loading Message-Id: <20051108175433.GA14839@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <4365DBD9.2040407@ukonline.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4365DBD9.2040407@ukonline.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ 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