Re: loading firmware while usermodehelper disabled.

Michael Büsch
2012-01-01T16:26:22Z

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.

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Greetings, Michael.