Re: [PATCH 2/2] ALSA: hda - Deferred probing with request_firmware_nowait()

From: David Henningsson
Date: Thu Aug 09 2012 - 09:26:47 EST


On 08/09/2012 03:11 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote:

@@ -3187,13 +3217,16 @@ static int __devinit azx_probe(struct pci_dev *pci,
if (patch[dev] && *patch[dev]) {
snd_printk(KERN_ERR SFX "Applying patch firmware '%s'\n",
patch[dev]);
- err = request_firmware(&chip->fw, patch[dev], &pci->dev);
+ err = request_firmware_nowait(THIS_MODULE, true, patch[dev],
+ &pci->dev, GFP_KERNEL, card,
+ azx_firmware_cb);
if (err < 0)
goto out_free;
+ chip->probe_deferred = 1;

I might be out on deep water here, but isn't this racy? Or is azx_firmware_cb somehow guaranteed not to execute before this function has exited?

}
#endif /* CONFIG_SND_HDA_PATCH_LOADER */

- if (!chip->disabled) {
+ if (!chip->disabled && !chip->probe_deferred) {
err = azx_probe_continue(chip);
if (err < 0)
goto out_free;




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David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
https://launchpad.net/~diwic
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