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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Lauro Ramos Venancio <lauro.venancio@openbossa.org>
Cc: "Elias, Ilan" <ilane@ti.com>,
	"aloisio.almeida@openbossa.org" <aloisio.almeida@openbossa.org>,
	"samuel@sortiz.org" <samuel@sortiz.org>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] NFC: NCI protocol proposal
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:02:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1312912950.3966.5.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK3JMAa=1kuP7CRRMBLxZtMromYbDMz18W6ZT=1KoSCD=tfFkQ@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20110809_194411_068851_56DC16DA)

On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 14:43 -0300, Lauro Ramos Venancio wrote:

> > We need to add the following 2 control operations (via generic netlink):
> >        - Dev_up, which turn on the NFC controller (this operation may take a   few seconds, as it can download new FW to the NFC controller)
> >        - Dev_down, which turn off the NFC controller
> > The dev_up/down approach was also used with HCI protocol in the BlueZ project.
> 
> I am not completely convinced that we need the dev up/down. Why is it
> not possible to load the FW in the probe?

The usual problem, if the driver is built-in then the probe will run
before userspace is available to load firmware.

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-09 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-09 15:04 [RFC] NFC: NCI protocol proposal Elias, Ilan
2011-08-09 17:43 ` Lauro Ramos Venancio
2011-08-09 18:02   ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2011-08-11 15:38     ` Elias, Ilan
2011-08-11 18:08 ` Samuel Ortiz
2011-08-14 11:51   ` Elias, Ilan

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