Re: [RFC v0 7/8] Input: ims-pcu: use firmware_stat instead of completion

From: Bjorn Andersson
Date: Thu Jul 28 2016 - 15:02:02 EST


On Thu 28 Jul 11:33 PDT 2016, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 09:55:11AM +0200, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> > From: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
[..]
>
> Do not quite like it... I'd rather asynchronous request give out a
> firmware status pointer that could be used later on.
>
> pcu->fw_st = request_firmware_async(IMS_PCU_FIRMWARE_NAME,
> pcu,
> ims_pcu_process_async_firmware);
> if (IS_ERR(pcu->fw_st))
> return PTR_ERR(pcu->fw_st);
>
> ....
>
> fw_loading_wait(pcu->fw_st);
>

In the remoteproc case (patch 6) this would clean up the code, rather
than replacing the completion API 1 to 1. I like it!

Regards,
Bjorn