Re: calling request_firmware() from module init will not work with recent/future udev versions
From: Johannes Berg <hidden>
Date: 2012-02-16 14:39:05
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On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 14:09 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
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When the firmware loading fails, the driver should unbind from the device that it failed for, and the retrying behaviour doesn't change (and requires a rebind)
That helps. My driver was happily bound to the device until unloading the driver or unplugging the device.
Right, if it fails you should call device_release_driver() johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html