Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] USB: add Sensoray 2255 v4l driver | Date | Thu, 15 May 2008 21:54:12 +0200 |
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Am Donnerstag 15 Mai 2008 20:44:24 schrieb Greg KH: > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 02:03:18PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > Am Donnerstag 15 Mai 2008 13:38:37 schrieb Oliver Neukum: > > > 3. The firmware stuff. That's an interesting solution. However: > > > > Actually, on second thought, I take that back. It's a bad solution. > > If you don't want to do it in probe(), the only other sensible place > > is in open(). That way you can avoid the whole trouble if nobody > > opens the device. And you need to handle the case of unloaded > > firmware anyway, so you can trigger firmware load there. > > No, we want to do firmware load on probe, I'll change it to be async so
Could you state your reasons for that preference?
Regards Oliver
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