From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>,
Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Kay Sievers <kay@redhat.com>,
Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>,
Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Subject: Re: udev breakages - was: Re: Need of an ".async_probe()" type of callback at driver's core - Was: Re: [PATCH] [media] drxk: change it to use request_firmware_nowait()
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 02:01:42 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.00.1210030159440.31999@twin.jikos.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFwNEm9fCE+U_c7XWT33gP8rxothHBkSsnDbBm8aXoB+nA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2 Oct 2012, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And see this email from Kay Sievers that shows that it was all known
> about and intentional in the udev camp:
>
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg185742.html
This seems confusing indeed.
That e-mail referenced above is talking about loading firmware at ifup
time. While that might work for network device drivers (I am not sure even
about that), what are the udev maintainers advice for other drivers, where
there is no analogy to ifup?
--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-03 0:01 UTC|newest]
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2012-10-02 13:03 ` udev breakages - was: Re: Need of an ".async_probe()" type of callback at driver's core - Was: Re: [PATCH] [media] drxk: change it to use request_firmware_nowait() Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-10-02 16:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-02 21:03 ` Ivan Kalvachev
2012-10-02 22:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-03 22:15 ` Lucas De Marchi
2012-10-11 18:33 ` Shea Levy
2012-10-12 1:55 ` Ming Lei
2012-10-02 22:12 ` Greg KH
2012-10-02 22:23 ` Greg KH
2012-10-02 22:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-03 0:01 ` Jiri Kosina [this message]
2012-10-03 0:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-04 14:36 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-10-03 15:13 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-10-03 16:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-03 17:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-03 17:09 ` Al Viro
2012-10-03 17:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-03 19:26 ` Al Viro
2012-10-04 0:57 ` udev breakages - Nix
2012-10-04 10:35 ` Nix
2012-10-03 19:50 ` udev breakages - was: Re: Need of an ".async_probe()" type of callback at driver's core - Was: Re: [PATCH] [media] drxk: change it to use request_firmware_nowait() Greg KH
2012-10-03 20:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-03 21:04 ` Kay Sievers
2012-10-03 21:05 ` Greg KH
2012-10-03 21:18 ` Kay Sievers
2012-10-03 21:45 ` Alan Cox
2012-10-03 21:58 ` Lucas De Marchi
2012-10-03 22:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-03 22:48 ` Andy Walls
2012-10-03 22:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-04 2:39 ` Kay Sievers
2012-10-04 17:29 ` udev breakages - Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-04 17:42 ` Greg KH
2012-10-04 19:17 ` Alan Cox
2012-10-10 3:19 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-10-10 16:08 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-10-11 3:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-04 13:39 ` udev breakages - was: Re: Need of an ".async_probe()" type of callback at driver's core - Was: Re: [PATCH] [media] drxk: change it to use request_firmware_nowait() Josh Boyer
2012-10-04 13:58 ` Greg KH
2012-10-03 22:53 ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-10-03 21:10 ` Andy Walls
2012-10-03 19:48 ` Access files from kernel Kirill A. Shutemov
2012-10-03 20:32 ` Linus Torvalds
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2012-10-04 1:42 ` udev breakages - was: Re: Need of an ".async_probe()" type of callback at driver's core - Was: Re: [PATCH] [media] drxk: change it to use request_firmware_nowait() Linus Torvalds
2012-10-03 14:12 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-10-03 14:36 ` Kay Sievers
2012-10-03 14:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-03 16:57 ` Greg KH
2012-10-03 17:24 ` Kay Sievers
2012-10-03 18:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-03 19:46 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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2012-10-04 14:50 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-10-05 8:03 ` Emmanuel Benisty
2012-10-05 20:17 ` david
2012-10-05 21:43 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
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