From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: mchehab@infradead.org, v4l-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
video4linux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: add Sensoray 2255 v4l driver
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 21:54:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200805152154.13630.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080515184424.GD15231@kroah.com>
Am Donnerstag 15 Mai 2008 20:44:24 schrieb Greg KH:
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 02:03:18PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag 15 Mai 2008 13:38:37 schrieb Oliver Neukum:
> > > 3. The firmware stuff. That's an interesting solution. However:
> >
> > Actually, on second thought, I take that back. It's a bad solution.
> > If you don't want to do it in probe(), the only other sensible place
> > is in open(). That way you can avoid the whole trouble if nobody
> > opens the device. And you need to handle the case of unloaded
> > firmware anyway, so you can trigger firmware load there.
>
> No, we want to do firmware load on probe, I'll change it to be async so
Could you state your reasons for that preference?
Regards
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-15 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-14 20:59 [PATCH] USB: add Sensoray 2255 v4l driver Greg KH
2008-05-15 1:17 ` [v4l-dvb-maintainer] " Markus Rechberger
2008-05-15 2:41 ` Greg KH
2008-05-15 3:12 ` Trent Piepho
2008-05-15 15:34 ` Dean Anderson
2008-05-15 16:57 ` Markus Rechberger
2008-05-16 2:59 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-15 11:38 ` Oliver Neukum
2008-05-15 12:03 ` Oliver Neukum
2008-05-15 18:44 ` Greg KH
2008-05-15 19:54 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2008-05-15 20:10 ` Greg KH
2008-05-15 20:13 ` Oliver Neukum
2008-05-16 2:51 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-16 6:28 ` Oliver Neukum
2008-05-16 15:57 ` dean
2008-05-16 16:04 ` Oliver Neukum
2008-05-16 18:17 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-16 14:53 ` dean
2008-05-16 15:34 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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