Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 17:25:58 +0100
From: Michael =?UTF-8?B?QsO8c2No?= <m@bues.ch>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
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	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	Chaoming Li <chaoming_li@realsil.com.cn>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
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Subject: Re: loading firmware while usermodehelper disabled.
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On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 11:17:52 -0500 (EST)
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:

> As Linus pointed out, the real problem here is the firmware loader.  
> The way it is now, a driver can't always depend on the data being
> available, even during a normal boot.  It ought to use an asynchronous
> approach; then none of these problems would arise.

request_firmware_nowait() exists.

-- 
Greetings, Michael.