will these methods work with firmware loading?

[Arend van Spriel]

On 02/20/2012 11:19 AM, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> For that
>> >  problem I would say yes. Also here the problem of handling error flows
>> >  exist. If the driver is kicked of during boot with a initramfs missing the
>> >  firmware, should we retry until the real root is mounted?
> I don't think so. Drivers are not supposed to know about bootup or
> initramfs issues. If they want, they can disable the timeout, and wait
> for userspace to handle the request any time later, but they should
> not try to be smart here.
>
> Currently, firmware requests are cancelled if the firmware isn't
> found, but that's a userspace issue, and nothing the kernel should try
> to work around.

I can not agree more. I prefer to keep my driver happily unaware. I will 
just take the firmware loading away from the module init path and stop 
worrying about userspace issues ;-)

Gr. AvS