> Well, I'm not sure and I'm not going to introduce the change right now, after > the paches have been included in -mm. > > That would require quite some changes in the core code that I'd prefer to > avoid for now. We can do something like this in a separate patch series after > the present one settles down a bit. I disagree. Doing it later would introduce yet another major semantic change. I think we should get it right now. There's no hurry in pushing things especially if they aren't quite right. The ability for prepare() callbacks to sync with userland, request_firmware, etc... is an important feature that's been needed for some time imho. Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html