On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 07:49:10PM +0100, Frank.A.Uepping wrote: > On Monday 14 February 2005 17:35, Greg KH wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 10:56:53AM +0100, Frank.A.Uepping wrote: > > > Hi, > > > may I call request_firmware() from the probe function of a PCI driver? > > > > Yes. Does it not work for you? > Indeed, but I was not sure whether it is appropriate to wait -- since > request_firmware() blocks -- for user space (loading firmware to kernel) in a > bus's driver probe function. Otherwise we need to use > request_firmware_nowait(), which is an asynchronous variant of > request_firmware(), apparently. You didn't ask if it was "appropriate" or not, only if it was possible to work properly :) And yes, I agree, you should call the _nowait() version to be nice to the rest of the system, and to your user who just called modprobe... thanks, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
