RE: [patch 2.6.12-rc3] modifications in firmware_class.c to support nohotplug

[<Abhay_Salunke@Dell.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@kroah.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 11:27 AM
> To: Salunke, Abhay
> Cc: dtor_core@ameritech.net; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
akpm@osdl.org;
> Domsch, Matt; ranty@debian.org
> Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc3] modifications in firmware_class.c to
> support nohotplug
> 
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 11:23:30AM -0500, Abhay_Salunke@Dell.com
wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@kroah.com]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 11:10 AM
> > > To: Salunke, Abhay
> > > Cc: dtor_core@ameritech.net; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
> > akpm@osdl.org;
> > > Domsch, Matt; ranty@debian.org
> > > Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc3] modifications in firmware_class.c
to
> > > support nohotplug
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 11:04:09AM -0500, Abhay_Salunke@Dell.com
> > wrote:
> > > > > I think it would be better if you just have request_firmware
and
> > > > > request_firmware_nowait accept timeout parameter that would
> > override
> > > > > default timeout in firmware_class. 0 would mean use default,
> > > > > MAX_SCHED_TIMEOUT - wait indefinitely.
> > > >
> > > > But we still need to avoid hotplug being invoked as we need it
be a
> > > > manual process.
> > >
> > > No, hotplug can happen just fine (it happens loads of times today
for
> > > things that people don't care about.)
> > >
> > If hotplug happens the complete function is called which makes the
> > request_firmware return with a failure.
> 
> If this was true, then the current code would not work at all.
Why not? Can't we avoid hotplug from running by not calling
kobject_hotplug()?
If hotplug does not happen we can do the stuff done by hotplug script
manually. And also the current code skips add_timer so not timeouts
irrespective of the timeout specified in /sys/class/firmware/timeout
thus preventing from breaking other's who are using timeout.

Thanks,
Abhay

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