[PATCH v2] dma: imx-sdma: clarify firmare not found warning

Vinod Koul vinod.koul at intel.com
Mon Jan 20 06:59:20 EST 2014


On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:38:50PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:36:27PM +0100, Lothar Waßmann wrote:
> > In case user space firmware loading support (CONFIG_FW_LOADER) is
> > enabled, this message may still be inadequate, since the firmware may
> > very well be loaded lateron.
> 
> I haven't worked out whether that's actually possible - I saw no way to
> re-trigger the firmware request, and once the firmware request expires,
> there seems to be no way for userspace to say "okay, the firmware is now
> available, please load it".
In that case why don't we use async version and wait till the userspace is
availble and firmware is loaded. 

So request_firmware_nowait() seems to do the job, I have used in a device where
I call it in probe() so that not to slow booting and make firmware bloc availble
userpsace is availble.

Sounds too good, did I miss anything obvious for this case here?

-- 
~Vinod



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