From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271749AbTG2PCf (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:02:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271755AbTG2PCf (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:02:35 -0400 Received: from mail.convergence.de ([212.84.236.4]:18669 "EHLO mail.convergence.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271749AbTG2PCd (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:02:33 -0400 Message-ID: <3F268C84.6060004@convergence.de> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:02:28 +0200 From: Michael Hunold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030715 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ranty@debian.org CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] request_firmware() private workqueue References: <3F1BD157.4090509@convergence.de> <20030726101818.GA25104@ranty.pantax.net> <20030726155952.GA23335@ranty.pantax.net> In-Reply-To: <20030726155952.GA23335@ranty.pantax.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello Manuel, I've applied your patches - request_firmware_own-workqueue.diff - sysfs-bin-unbreak.diff and it's working very well for the av7110 DVB driver. I hope that these patches are applied to the mainline kernel soon, so the other DVB drivers which need binary firmware blobs (namely dvb-ttusb-dec, dvb-ttusb-budget and one frontend driver) can be ported. This will get rid of the av7110 firmware in the kernel and the ugly config hacks to get the other drivers working. CU Michael.