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SubjectRe: 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()
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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