Re: [PATCH] Eagle and ADI 930 usb adsl modem driver

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 10:18:13PM +0100, matthieu castet wrote:
> matthieu castet wrote:
> >Hi Greg,
> >>>+/*
> >>>+ * sometime hotplug don't have time to give the firmware the
> >>>+ * first time, retry it.
> >>>+ */
> >>>+static int sleepy_request_firmware(const struct firmware **fw, 
> >>>+        const char *name, struct device *dev)
> >>>+{
> >>>+    if (request_firmware(fw, name, dev) == 0)
> >>>+        return 0;
> >>>+    msleep(1000);
> >>>+    return request_firmware(fw, name, dev);
> >>>+}
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>No, use the async firmware download mode instead of this.  That will
> >>solve all of your problems.
> >>
> >>
> >Thanks, but does userspace will retry if it fails the first time ?
> >The device needs the firmware quickly and after 3-5 seconds without it, 
> >it goes berserk.
> >
> In request_firmware_nowait, when kernel_thread failed, where fw_work is 
> freed ?
> Aren't there a memleack ?

I really do not know, as I have not looked at that code.  If you see
problems in it, please feel free to fix it up, as there is no living
maintainer for it anymore :(

thanks,

greg k-h