Re: will these methods work with firmware loading?
"Arend van Spriel" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.hotplug.devel,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general |
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On 02/20/2012 11:19 AM, Kay Sievers wrote: >> For that >> > problem I would say yes. Also here the problem of handling error flows >> > exist. If the driver is kicked of during boot with a initramfs missing the >> > firmware, should we retry until the real root is mounted? > I don't think so. Drivers are not supposed to know about bootup or > initramfs issues. If they want, they can disable the timeout, and wait > for userspace to handle the request any time later, but they should > not try to be smart here. > > Currently, firmware requests are cancelled if the firmware isn't > found, but that's a userspace issue, and nothing the kernel should try > to work around. I can not agree more. I prefer to keep my driver happily unaware. I will just take the firmware loading away from the module init path and stop worrying about userspace issues ;-) Gr. AvS -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html