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Re: [PATCH] ar9170: load firmware asynchronously

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On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 15:02 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> Sweet -- we could also expose firmware load events if not done so
> already and let userspace propagate such nasty warnings, I think we'd
> need to pass the firmware expected and the driver the requested it so
> that once the firmware is in place (I guess through inotify maybe) the
> driver modprobe can be retried.

Actually, since the driver doesn't fail loading, the _bind_ has to be
retried. I'm not sure there's a way to trigger a re-probe though, which
would be easiest since userspace doesn't necessarily know what to bind.

johannes

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