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Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 17:25:58 +0100
From: Michael =?UTF-8?B?QsO8c2No?= <m@bues.ch>
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Subject: Re: loading firmware while usermodehelper disabled.
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On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 11:17:52 -0500 (EST)
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:

> As Linus pointed out, the real problem here is the firmware loader.  
> The way it is now, a driver can't always depend on the data being
> available, even during a normal boot.  It ought to use an asynchronous
> approach; then none of these problems would arise.

request_firmware_nowait() exists.

-- 
Greetings, Michael.