From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Return-Path: <linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org>
Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand
        id S934564AbcIFW24 (ORCPT <rfc822;w@1wt.eu>);
        Tue, 6 Sep 2016 18:28:56 -0400
Received: from mail-pf0-f173.google.com ([209.85.192.173]:34011 "EHLO
        mail-pf0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org
        with ESMTP id S933062AbcIFW2y (ORCPT
        <rfc822;linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>);
        Tue, 6 Sep 2016 18:28:54 -0400
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 15:28:47 -0700
From: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        "open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
        Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@samsung.com>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
        Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>,
        Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
        Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
        Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>,
        Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
        Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>, Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>,
        Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
        Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>, Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
        Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
        Vikram Mulukutla <markivx@codeaurora.org>,
        Alessandro Rubini <rubini@gnudd.com>, Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
        Gilles.Muller@lip6.fr, linux-serial <linux-serial@vger.kernel.org>,
        Roman Pen <r.peniaev@gmail.com>, Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>,
        Stephen Boyd <stephen.boyd@linaro.org>, nicolas.palix@imag.fr,
        "Abhay_Salunke@dell.com" <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Thierry Martinez <martinez@nsup.org>,
        Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] fs: add userspace critical mounts event support
Message-ID: <20160906222847.GF15161@tuxbot>
References: <20160825194133.GC3296@wotan.suse.de>
 <20160902235916.GO3296@wotan.suse.de>
 <20160903002014.GP3296@wotan.suse.de>
 <CA+55aFy4_QLYiQxtKpq0FJD7eSBRZ8nXS=Ruuz1TYodHdE_dCA@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAKdAkRSQmz3FoP8Z2ONm7-_A9RHF2Ox6snaCpsyS6HA7=+RerQ@mail.gmail.com>
 <CA+55aFz4q5peXAeY9h8o3he7R=wXrBSYkOjMM9TehOw=pPoS+Q@mail.gmail.com>
 <20160903174939.GB32345@dtor-ws>
 <CA+55aFwLrXRUO9n75Sthu+g73BEjskAgUkguyLwU=JA_PNzdOQ@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAKdAkRTv5Fv54wetBqkS+EyEuP_k5exJat+QXBLtTkFLO_-maQ@mail.gmail.com>
 <20160906215204.GR3296@wotan.suse.de>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20160906215204.GR3296@wotan.suse.de>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
List-ID: <linux-kernel.vger.kernel.org>
X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

On Tue 06 Sep 14:52 PDT 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> We already have MODULE_FIRMWARE(), we could have MODULE_FIRMWARE_REQ() or
> something like it to help annotate the the driver was only functional with the
> firmware, punt things to kmod to deal with the requirements.

That implies that a single driver will only use a single version of the
firmware. There are cases where we want a single driver to load firmware
depending on e.g. hardware revisions, or previous firmware version and
there are cases where we want to load firmware based on requested
use-cases.

Regards,
Bjorn