Re: [PATCH] [media] drxk: change it to use request_firmware_nowait()

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On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
<mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The firmware blob may not be available when the driver probes.
>
> Instead of blocking the whole kernel use request_firmware_nowait() and
> continue without firmware.
>
> This shouldn't be that bad on drx-k devices, as they all seem to have an
> internal firmware. So, only the firmware update will take a little longer
> to happen.

The patch itself looks fine, however the comment at the end probably
isn't valid. Many of the drx-k devices don't have onboard flash, and
even for the ones that do have flash, uploading the firmware doesn't
actually rewrite the flash.  It patches the in-RAM copy (or replaces
the *running* image).

Devin

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