Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 15:15:35 +0200
From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] request_firmware: skip timeout if userspace was not
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On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:57:52 +0200,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:

> The real fix would be to change the driver not to block in the firmware
> request and use async version of firmware loading.

I guess some drivers want to fail the probe if they can't get the
firmware. This sounds like the "some parts of ->probe may take ages and
block everything else" problem again...
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