On Tuesday 5 December 2006 18:02, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Dienstag, 5. Dezember 2006 16:54 schrieb Duncan Sands: > > > it is helpful for devices that want to upload firmware in their probe > > method. Getting the firmware from the firmware subsystem can take a long > > time (due to timeouts for example, which may be infinite, or because it is > > waiting for a filesystem to be mounted etc). Parallel probing keeps the > > rest > > of the USB subsystem running while that device is waiting, which is > > particularly > > important if the filesystem you are waiting for is on a USB device, since > > otherwise it could be a deadlock! > > No, the number of times you can spawn of a new thread is limited. > You must be able to cope with that. The configuration you described > is buggy.
Hi Oliver, I don't see anything inherently wrong with someone wanting to use a USB device which obtains firmware via another USB device. Are you simply pointing out that loading firmware in the probe method will still be buggy even with Greg's new scheme, or are you arguing that the above configuration is inherently wrong? Ciao, Duncan. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
