On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 02:42:41PM +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote: > + Luis (again) ;-) > > On 29-07-16 08:13, Daniel Wagner wrote: > > On 07/28/2016 09:01 PM, Bjorn Andersson wrote: > >> On Thu 28 Jul 11:33 PDT 2016, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > >> > >>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 09:55:11AM +0200, Daniel Wagner wrote: > >>>> From: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > >>>> > >> [..] > >>> > >>> Do not quite like it... I'd rather asynchronous request give out a > >>> firmware status pointer that could be used later on. > > Excellent. Why not get rid of the callback function as well and have > fw_loading_wait() return result (0 = firmware available, < 0 = fail). > Just to confirm, you are proposing a new API function next to > request_firmware_nowait(), right? If proposing new firmware_class patches please bounce / Cc me, I've recently asked for me to be added to MAINTAINERS so I get these e-mails as I'm working on a new flexible API which would allow us to extend the firmware API without having to care about the old stupid usermode helper at all. > >>> pcu->fw_st = request_firmware_async(IMS_PCU_FIRMWARE_NAME, > >>> - pcu, > >>> - ims_pcu_process_async_firmware); > + pcu); > >>> if (IS_ERR(pcu->fw_st)) > >>> return PTR_ERR(pcu->fw_st); > >>> > >>> .... > >>> > >>> err = fw_loading_wait(pcu->fw_st); > if (err) > return err; > > fw = fwstat_get_firmware(pcu->fw_st); > > Or whatever consistent prefix it is going to be. > > >>> > >> > >> In the remoteproc case (patch 6) this would clean up the code, rather > >> than replacing the completion API 1 to 1. I like it! > > > > IIRC most drivers do it the same way. So request_firmware_async() indeed > > would be good thing to have. Let me try that. > > While the idea behind this series is a good one I am wondering about the > need for these drivers to use the asynchronous API. The historic reason > might be to avoid timeout caused by user-mode helper, but that may no > longer apply and these drivers could be better off using > request_firmware_direct(). BTW I have in my queue for the sysdata API something like firmware_request_direct() but with async support. The only thing left to do I think is just add the devm helpers so drivers no longer need to worry about the release of the firmware. > There have been numerous discussions about the firmware API. Here most > recent one: > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/index.html#152755 And more importantly, the sysdata API queue: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux-next.git/log/?h=20160616-sysdata-v2 Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
