From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755438AbYEOMDe (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2008 08:03:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751364AbYEOMDX (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2008 08:03:23 -0400 Received: from smtp-out003.kontent.com ([81.88.40.217]:42945 "EHLO smtp-out003.kontent.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750980AbYEOMDX (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2008 08:03:23 -0400 From: Oliver Neukum Organization: NOvell To: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: add Sensoray 2255 v4l driver Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 14:03:18 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: mchehab@infradead.org, v4l-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, video4linux-list@redhat.com References: <20080514205927.GA13134@kroah.com> <200805151338.38801.oliver@neukum.org> In-Reply-To: <200805151338.38801.oliver@neukum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805151403.19323.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Donnerstag 15 Mai 2008 13:38:37 schrieb Oliver Neukum: > 3. The firmware stuff. That's an interesting solution. However: Actually, on second thought, I take that back. It's a bad solution. If you don't want to do it in probe(), the only other sensible place is in open(). That way you can avoid the whole trouble if nobody opens the device. And you need to handle the case of unloaded firmware anyway, so you can trigger firmware load there. Regards Oliver