On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 07:49:08PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 08:56:04PM +0100, Nick Dyer wrote:

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Thanks! I had wondered why you had left it, you never communicated this to
me unfortunately. Would it be preferable for me to switch to
request_firmware_nowait() and complete the probe asynchronously after it
returns?

Another common option is to defer the firmware request/load until the
device is opened, but that doesn't work for all devices.  That should
mean that userspace is up and running.

That would not work for input devices as firmware quite often defines
capabilities of the devices and we need them before registering input
device (which is the object that userspace opens).

Thanks.

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Dmitry