Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 15:11:31 -0600
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
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On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 03:32:32PM -0500, atull wrote:

> I looked some more; I don't see a simple way of deferring probing until 
> after the filesystem is loaded (so that the image file would be 
> available), late_initcall is still not late enough.

That seems weird, are you saying you can't use request firmware at all
from a compiled in driver? I don't know much about that flow, sorry.

Having that work would mean the system can have a reasonable in-tree
use case without requiring the out of tree dt overlay stuff.

Jason
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