Re: SDIO: IO-Ready Bit

[Tomas Winkler]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Pierre Ossman <drzeus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:43:40 +0200
>
> "Tomas Winkler" <tomasw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Pierre Ossman <drzeus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  > >
>
> > >  A better approach is to simply have the drivers for your subfunctions synchronize things. Make sure noone calls sdio_enable_func() until the firmware has been loaded.
>  >
>  > This could even be done from user space in case you want to use a
>  > standard driver.
>  >
>  > Won't this prevent us from compiling the drivers into kernel?
>  > Second how this possible especially with standard driver as they are
>  > loaded. I know you can enforce module loading but how can you enforce
>  > probing order form user space?
>
>  You can tell the kernel to not automatically attach drivers to devices.
>  That way you can have a user space process control exactly the order
>  and timing of things. I haven't played around with this feature myself
>  though, so I can't really provide you with any good information on how
>  to use it. You should be able to google up something useful.

I couldn't find anything that can prevent the probe function to be
called in case the module is already loaded. I've looked at udev and
HAL and no much I found.
I will dig into kernel sources, maybe finding out how can be bus
enumeration triggered again or something like this.
Any pointers will be appreciated.

Thanks
Tomas
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