From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934238AbYETV7X (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2008 17:59:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763373AbYETV7N (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2008 17:59:13 -0400 Received: from smtp-out002.kontent.com ([81.88.40.216]:35338 "EHLO smtp-out002.kontent.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757768AbYETV7M (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2008 17:59:12 -0400 From: Oliver Neukum Organization: NOvell To: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH] Firmware loader driver for USB Apple iSight camera Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 23:59:05 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de, bersace03@laposte.net, johannes@sipsolutions.de References: <20080520190628.GA14580@srcf.ucam.org> In-Reply-To: <20080520190628.GA14580@srcf.ucam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805202359.06873.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Dienstag 20 Mai 2008 21:06:28 schrieb Matthew Garrett: > I think this is a cleaner solution than adding support for the firmware > loading directly to the uvcvideo driver, and doing it as a driver rather > than a set of userspace callouts simplifies the suspend/resume case. The How does that simplify suspend/resume? If the device looses its firmware due to suspend you must implement this support in uvc, or a user space driver will be as good as this solution. Regards Oliver