From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] request_firmware without a device
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 12:26:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1148552781.4734.13.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1148532550.32046.107.camel@sli10-desk.sh.intel.com>
Hi Shaohua,
> > > The patch allows calling request_firmware without a 'struct device'.
> > > It appears we just need a name here from 'struct device'. I changed it
> > > to use a kobject as Patrick suggested.
> > > Next patch will use the new API to request firmware (microcode) for a CPU.
> >
> > But a cpu does have a struct device. Why not just use that?
> It's a sysdev, no 'struct device' in it, IIRC.
do we really need to differentiate between sysdev and device anymore. I
recall a plan to unify all devices, but I might be wrong.
Regards
Marcel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-25 10:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-25 3:50 [PATCH 1/2] request_firmware without a device Shaohua Li
2006-05-25 4:01 ` Greg KH
2006-05-25 4:49 ` Shaohua Li
2006-05-25 10:26 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2006-05-25 14:55 ` Greg KH
2006-05-25 10:24 ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-05-26 3:40 ` Shaohua Li
2006-05-26 4:06 ` Greg KH
2006-05-26 4:41 ` Shaohua Li
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