From: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, ming.lei@canonical.com, bp@alien8.de,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] firmware: add new extensible firmware API - drvdata
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 10:58:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170119185856.GX10531@minitux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170112150244.12700-2-mcgrof@kernel.org>
On Thu 12 Jan 07:02 PST 2017, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
[..]
> +Fallback mechanisms on the driver data API
> +==========================================
> +
> +The old firmware API provided support for a series of fallback mechanisms. The
> +new driver data API abandons all current notions of the fallback mechanisms,
> +it may soon add support for one though.
> +
What will this fallback mechanism look like? Will it be fully compatible
with the current userspace interfaces or will we forever have two
duplicate systems for loading "firmware" in the kernel?
Will the "sysdata" (or is it named "driver_data"?!) replace the
firmware_class at any point in the future?
Regards,
Bjorn
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-19 18:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-16 11:46 [PATCH v3 0/4] firmware: add drvdata API Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-16 11:46 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] firmware: add new extensible firmware API - drvdata Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-16 11:46 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] test: add new drvdata loader tester Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-16 11:46 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] x86/microcode: convert to use sysdata API Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-16 11:46 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] p54: convert to " Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-16 17:14 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-01-12 15:02 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] firmware: add drvdata API Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-01-12 15:02 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] firmware: add new extensible firmware API - drvdata Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-01-19 11:36 ` Greg KH
2017-01-19 16:54 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-01-19 18:58 ` Bjorn Andersson [this message]
2017-02-03 21:56 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-01-12 15:02 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] test: add new drvdata loader tester Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-01-12 15:02 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] p54: convert to sysdata API Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-01-16 11:32 ` Christian Lamparter
2017-01-19 11:38 ` Greg KH
2017-01-19 16:27 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-01-26 21:50 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-01-26 21:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-01-27 18:23 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-01-27 20:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-01-27 21:34 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-01-27 7:47 ` Greg KH
2017-01-27 11:25 ` Rafał Miłecki
2017-01-27 14:07 ` Greg KH
2017-01-27 14:14 ` Rafał Miłecki
2017-01-27 14:30 ` Greg KH
2017-01-27 14:39 ` Rafał Miłecki
2017-01-27 21:27 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-02-07 1:08 ` [PATCH v5 0/2] firmware: add driver data API Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-02-07 1:08 ` [PATCH v5 1/2] firmware: add extensible " Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-02-07 1:08 ` [PATCH v5 2/2] test: add new driver_data load tester Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-02-10 14:31 ` [PATCH v5 0/2] firmware: add driver data API Greg KH
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