On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 07:49:08PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 08:56:04PM +0100, Nick Dyer wrote: > > > Thanks! I had wondered why you had left it, you never communicated this to > > me unfortunately. Would it be preferable for me to switch to > > request_firmware_nowait() and complete the probe asynchronously after it > > returns? > > Another common option is to defer the firmware request/load until the > device is opened, but that doesn't work for all devices. That should > mean that userspace is up and running. That would not work for input devices as firmware quite often defines capabilities of the devices and we need them before registering input device (which is the object that userspace opens). Thanks. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
