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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Ian Campbell

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