Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932769Ab2JCABy (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2012 20:01:54 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:52420 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932747Ab2JCABw (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2012 20:01:52 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 02:01:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Jiri Kosina X-X-Sender: jikos@twin.jikos.cz To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Greg KH , Kay Sievers , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Lennart Poettering , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kay Sievers , Linux Media Mailing List , Michael Krufky Subject: Re: udev breakages - was: Re: Need of an ".async_probe()" type of callback at driver's core - Was: Re: [PATCH] [media] drxk: change it to use request_firmware_nowait() In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1340285798-8322-1-git-send-email-mchehab@redhat.com> <4FE37194.30407@redhat.com> <4FE8B8BC.3020702@iki.fi> <4FE8C4C4.1050901@redhat.com> <4FE8CED5.104@redhat.com> <20120625223306.GA2764@kroah.com> <4FE9169D.5020300@redhat.com> <20121002100319.59146693@redhat.com> <20121002221239.GA30990@kroah.com> <20121002222333.GA32207@kroah.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LRH 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 771 Lines: 23 On Tue, 2 Oct 2012, Linus Torvalds wrote: > And see this email from Kay Sievers that shows that it was all known > about and intentional in the udev camp: > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg185742.html This seems confusing indeed. That e-mail referenced above is talking about loading firmware at ifup time. While that might work for network device drivers (I am not sure even about that), what are the udev maintainers advice for other drivers, where there is no analogy to ifup? -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/