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()

2012-10-03 Thread Lucas De Marchi
model. They wanted to pass a fd instead of a buffer. That is being done in the new finit_module syscall being discussed: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1592271?do=post_view_flat Lucas De Marchi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

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()

2012-10-03 Thread Lucas De Marchi
g entirely for the synchronous firmware loading case. This would break non-udev users with different paths. Namely Android, which uses /system/etc/firmware and /system/vendor/firmware (not sure about them though, I'm not keen on Android camp) So maintaining the fallback or adding a configu