On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 13:11 -0400, Tyler Trafford wrote: > Hans Verkuil wrote: > > > I've never actually tested having ivtv compiled in the kernel, I > > always tested it as a module. I'm not sure how firmware loading is > > supposed to work for in-kernel drivers. I suspect that by the time the > > driver is initialized the hotplug daemons may not be active yet. > > http://ivtvdriver.org/pipermail/ivtv-devel/2007-February/004501.html > > I think it might be a good idea for drivers that require firmware to > delay initialization until triggered by the user.
Do the drivers timeout the firmware load or do they just keep waiting?
The later would make sense since then you could do a "coldplug" type
operation, similar to what is currently done for PCI/USB/etc devices
which are present at boot, once the system had come up enough.
Ian.
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