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From: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] fs: add userspace critical mounts event support
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 15:28:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160906222847.GF15161@tuxbot> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160906215204.GR3296@wotan.suse.de>

On Tue 06 Sep 14:52 PDT 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> We already have MODULE_FIRMWARE(), we could have MODULE_FIRMWARE_REQ() or
> something like it to help annotate the the driver was only functional with the
> firmware, punt things to kmod to deal with the requirements.

That implies that a single driver will only use a single version of the
firmware. There are cases where we want a single driver to load firmware
depending on e.g. hardware revisions, or previous firmware version and
there are cases where we want to load firmware based on requested
use-cases.

Regards,
Bjorn

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-06 22:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-16 22:54 [PATCH v2 0/5] firmware: add SmPL grammar to avoid issues Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-06-16 22:54 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] MAINTAINERS: extend firmware_class maintainer list Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-06-16 22:54 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] firmware: annotate thou shalt not request fw on init or probe Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-24  6:55   ` Daniel Vetter
2016-08-24 20:39     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-25 11:05       ` Daniel Vetter
2016-08-25 19:41         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-25 20:10           ` Daniel Vetter
2016-08-25 20:25             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-25 20:30           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-09-02 23:59           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-09-03  0:20             ` [RFC] fs: add userspace critical mounts event support Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-09-03  4:11               ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-03  4:20                 ` Dmitry Torokhov
     [not found]                   ` <CA+55aFz4q5peXAeY9h8o3he7R=wXrBSYkOjMM9TehOw=pPoS+Q@mail.gmail.com>
2016-09-03 17:49                     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-09-03 18:01                       ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-03 18:10                         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-09-06 21:52                           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-09-06 22:28                             ` Bjorn Andersson [this message]
2016-09-06 23:14                               ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-09-24  1:37                           ` Herbert, Marc
2016-09-24 17:41                             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-10-05  0:00                               ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-10-05  0:12                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-05  0:24                                   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-10-05  0:32                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-05 17:38                                       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-10-05  1:48                                   ` Josh Triplett
2016-10-05  1:58                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-06 17:46                 ` Bjorn Andersson
2016-09-06 18:32                   ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-06 21:11                     ` Bjorn Andersson
2016-09-06 21:50                       ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-06 23:04                         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-09-24  2:51                           ` Herbert, Marc
2016-10-04 23:28                             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-09-06 22:32                     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-09-14  2:38               ` Rob Landley
2016-10-05 18:00                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-10-05 18:08                   ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-05 19:46                     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-11-08 22:47                       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-11-09  9:13                         ` Daniel Wagner
2016-11-09 23:40                         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-11-15  9:28                         ` Johannes Berg
2016-06-16 22:54 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] firmware: update usermode helper docs and add SmPL report Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-06-16 22:54 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] firmware: add usermode helper DECLARE_FW_LOADER_USER() annotation Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-06-16 22:54 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] firmware: fix fw cache to avoid usermode helper on suspend Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-07  0:56 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] firmware: add SmPL grammar to avoid issues Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-13 21:47   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-28  0:41     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-03 14:50       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-03 15:04         ` Greg KH
2016-08-03 17:06           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-03 19:32             ` Greg KH
2016-08-03 19:46               ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-13 23:52   ` Fengguang Wu
2016-07-14  2:15     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-14  2:23       ` Fengguang Wu
2016-07-14  3:08         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-14  3:35           ` Fengguang Wu
2016-08-24  0:45 ` [PATCH v3 " mcgrof
2016-08-24  0:45   ` [PATCH v3 1/5] MAINTAINERS: extend firmware_class maintainer list mcgrof
2016-08-24  0:45   ` [PATCH v3 2/5] firmware: annotate thou shalt not request fw on init or probe mcgrof
2016-08-24  8:17     ` Gabriel Paubert
2016-09-02 18:26       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-24  0:45   ` [PATCH v3 3/5] firmware: update usermode helper docs and add SmPL report mcgrof
2016-08-24  0:45   ` [PATCH v3 4/5] firmware: add usermode helper DECLARE_FW_LOADER_USER() annotation mcgrof
2016-08-24  0:45   ` [PATCH v3 5/5] firmware: fix fw cache to avoid usermode helper on suspend mcgrof
2016-08-31  7:03     ` Daniel Wagner
2016-09-02 18:13       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-09-07  0:42   ` [PATCH v4 0/5] firmware: add SmPL grammar to avoid issues Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-09-07  0:42     ` [PATCH v4 1/5] MAINTAINERS: extend firmware_class maintainer list Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-09-07  6:43       ` Greg KH
2016-09-08 14:58         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-09-08 15:25         ` Ming Lei
2016-09-07  0:42     ` [PATCH v4 2/5] firmware: annotate thou shalt not request fw on init or probe Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-09-07  0:42     ` [PATCH v4 3/5] firmware: update usermode helper docs and add SmPL report Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-09-07  0:42     ` [PATCH v4 4/5] firmware: add usermode helper DECLARE_FW_LOADER_USER() annotation Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-09-07  0:42     ` [PATCH v4 5/5] firmware: fix fw cache to avoid usermode helper on suspend Luis R. Rodriguez

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