Subject: Re: [PATCH] request_firmware: skip timeout if userspace was not 
	notified
From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: Javier Pello <javier.pello@urjc.es>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:21:30 +0200
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On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 11:13 +0200, Javier Pello wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Aug 2007, Kay Sievers 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.
> 
> If I'm not mistaken, as it is now, requests are not grouped in any way.
> The only hint that a firmware loading request is in progress are a couple
> of files in the device directory in sysfs. Should I run, at boot, through
> all the device directories to check which firmware requests are pending?

/sys/class/firmware/* contains all pending requests, no need to search
anywhere else.

Kay

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