On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:08:25 +0200, Kay Sievers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nope, you would just fulfill in a completely generic way all outstanding > requests when you are ready. All requests are all nicely grouped and > visible in sysfs. There would be no need of coding your own device > specific rebind. No timeout is needed or wanted, all requests would stay > until userspace has handled them successfully or canceled them. Hm, that would mean that no build-in driver may call request_firmware(), only request_firmware_nowait() with no timeout. Likely drivers that want to fail probe for no firmware will need to split their probe functions. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
