Re: [RESEND][PATCH] Bluetooth: Make request workqueue freezable

[Oliver Neukum]

On Thu, 2015-05-21 at 22:46 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 05/21/15 19:32, Takashi Iwai wrote:


> >>>>> Well, if the probe requires the access to a user-space file, it can't
> >>>>> be done during resume.  That's the very problem we're seeing now.
> >>>>> The firmware loader can't help much alone if it's a new device
> >>>>> object.
> 
> So you are saying each device driver should come up with some retry 
> mechanism. Would make more sense to come up with something like that 
> behind the scenes in the firmware loader so all device drivers can rely 
> on one and the same solution.

There is already a notifier for this. I don't see why the firmware
layer couldn't retrigger a match for all unbound devices, just like
we do when a new driver is loaded.

	Regards
		Oliver


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