On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 11:04:27PM +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Manuel,
>
> > A while back request_firmware() was added to the 2.5 kernel series to
> > support firmware needing drivers keeping the firmware images in
> > userspace. And I also backported it to the 2.4 kernel series on top of
> > procfs, but Marcelo didn't answer emails relating to it (there where
> > probably other more important matters back then).
> >
> > Since then, the 2.4 backport has been deployed and tested with
> > orinoco_usb driver variant (http://orinoco-usb.alioth.debian.org/),
> > as you can see in the download statistics in alioth, there has been
> > more than 400 downloads of the request_firmware enabled version
> > (0.2.1). And drivers on the 2.5/2.6 series are being ported to use
> > request_firmware() interface.
>
> I've tested your patch with 2.4.22-pre8 and a modified version of my
> bfusb driver. It is working fine, but I get these log entries:
>
> hub.c: new USB device 02:0c.0-2, assigned address 2
> firmware_class.c:call_helper: firmware: /sbin/hotplug firmware add
> remove_proc_entry: bfusb003002/loading busy, count=1
> remove_proc_entry: firmware/bfusb003002 busy, count=1
> BlueFRITZ! USB loading firmware
> de_put: deferred delete of loading
> de_put: deferred delete of bfusb003002
> BlueFRITZ! USB device ready
>
> Is this a problem of your patch or is it a general /proc problem?
I don't know if I can get around it, but it is a /proc issue, it dumps
those messages when the kernel removes a file that is being used from
userspace. Those messages should probably be changed into KERN_DEBUG.
> I already ported drivers/bluetooth/bfusb.c to use the request_firmware()
> interface and I will port drivers/bluetooth/bt3c_cs.c after this patch
> gets merged.
Great.
Have a nice day
Manuel
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