On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:08:25 +0200,
Kay Sievers <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nope, you would just fulfill in a completely generic way all outstanding
> requests when you are ready. All requests are all nicely grouped and
> visible in sysfs. There would be no need of coding your own device
> specific rebind. No timeout is needed or wanted, all requests would stay
> until userspace has handled them successfully or canceled them.
Hm, that would mean that no build-in driver may call
request_firmware(), only request_firmware_nowait() with no timeout.
Likely drivers that want to fail probe for no firmware will need to
split their probe functions.
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