Re: udev breakages - was: Re: Need of an ".async_probe()" type of callback at driver's core - Was: Re: [PATCH] [media] drxk: change it to use request_firmware_nowait()

2012-10-03 Thread Kay Sievers
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > That said, there's clearly enough variation here that I think that for > now I won't take the step to disable the udev part. I'll do the patch > to support "direct filesystem firmware loading" using the udev default > paths, and that hopeful

Re: udev breakages - was: Re: Need of an ".async_probe()" type of callback at driver's core - Was: Re: [PATCH] [media] drxk: change it to use request_firmware_nowait()

2012-10-03 Thread Kay Sievers
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Greg KH wrote: > As for the firmware path, maybe we should > change that to be modified by userspace (much like /sbin/hotplug was) in > a proc file so that distros can override the location if they need to. If that's needed, a CONFIG_FIRMWARE_PATH= with the array

Re: udev breakages - was: Re: Need of an ".async_probe()" type of callback at driver's core - Was: Re: [PATCH] [media] drxk: change it to use request_firmware_nowait()

2012-10-03 Thread Kay Sievers
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Greg KH wrote: >>> >>> Ok, like this? >> >> This looks good to me. Having udev do firmware loading and tieing it to >> the driver model may have not been such a good idea so many years ago. >> Doing it this

Re: udev breakages - was: Re: Need of an ".async_probe()" type of callback at driver's core - Was: Re: [PATCH] [media] drxk: change it to use request_firmware_nowait()

2012-10-03 Thread Kay Sievers
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Greg KH wrote: >> It's the same in the current release, we still haven't wrapped our >> head around how to fix it/work around it. > > Ick, as this is breaking people's previously-working machines, shouldn't > this be resolved quickly? Nothing really "breaks", It's

Re: udev breakages - was: Re: Need of an ".async_probe()" type of callback at driver's core - Was: Re: [PATCH] [media] drxk: change it to use request_firmware_nowait()

2012-10-03 Thread Kay Sievers
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:12 AM, Greg KH wrote: > Mauro, what version of udev are you using that is still showing this > issue? > > Kay, didn't you resolve this already? If not, what was the reason why? It's the same in the current release, we still haven't wrapped our head around how to fix it

Re: [PATCH RFC 3/4] em28xx: Workaround for new udev versions

2012-06-26 Thread Kay Sievers
On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 18:07 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em 26-06-2012 17:40, Greg KH escreveu: > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 04:34:21PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > >> New udev-182 seems to be buggy: even when usermode is enabled, it > >> insists on needing that probe would defer a

Re: [Q] udev and soc-camera

2010-01-28 Thread Kay Sievers
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 15:02, Valentin Longchamp wrote: > Kay Sievers wrote: > Thanks a lot Kay, you pointed me exactly where I needed to watch. > OpenEmbedded adds udevadm trigger a big list of --susbsystem-nomatch options > as soon as you are not doing your first boot anymore and

Re: [Q] udev and soc-camera

2010-01-28 Thread Kay Sievers
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 00:25, Valentin Longchamp wrote: > I have a system that is built with OpenEmbedded where I use a mt9t031 camera > with the soc-camera framework. The mt9t031 works ok with the current kernel > and system. > > However, udev does not create the /dev/video0 device node. I have

v4l: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()

2009-01-25 Thread Kay Sievers
From: Kay Sievers Subject: v4l: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() Cc: mche...@infradead.org Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers --- drivers/media/radio/radio-tea5764.c |3 ++- drivers/media/video/v4l2