Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Wed, 3 Oct 2012 10:00:43 -0700 | 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() |
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On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > Anyway. Attached is a really stupid patch that tries to do the "direct > firmware load" as suggested by Ivan. It has not been tested very > extensively at all (but I did test that it loaded the brcmsmac > firmware images on my laptop so it has the *potential* to work).
Oh, and I stupidly put the new functions next to the builtin firmware loading function, which means that the patch only works if you have CONFIG_FW_LOADER enabled.
That's bogus, and the functions should be moved out of that #ifdef, but I don't think it should hurt testing.
Linus
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