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From: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: wake all waiters
To: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
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On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 7:10 PM, Jakub Kicinski
<jakub.kicinski@netronome.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:20:36 +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
[..]
>  - how to stay bound and retry the direct default FW load until rootfs
>    is mounted (equivalent to when -EPROBE_DEFER would give up);

If you constrain this problem to only await the mounting of a root
file system you miss the various cases where rootfs is later pivoted
or the firmware isn't stored in the root file system (e.g. every
Android device out there).

Regards,
Bjorn