[alsa-devel] [PATCH 2/2 v2] ALSA: hda - Deferred probing with request_firmware_nowait()
Takashi Iwai
tiwai at suse.de
Thu Aug 9 16:04:51 CEST 2012
At Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:54:04 +0200,
David Henningsson wrote:
>
> On 08/09/2012 03:36 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > +/* callback from request_firmware_nowait() */
> > +static void azx_firmware_cb(const struct firmware *fw, void *context)
> > +{
> > + struct snd_card *card = context;
> > + struct azx *chip = card->private_data;
> > + struct pci_dev *pci = chip->pci;
> > +
> > + if (!fw) {
> > + snd_printk(KERN_ERR SFX "Cannot load firmware, aborting\n");
> > + goto error;
> > + }
>
> Another thing, aren't you missing a
>
> chip->fw = fw;
>
> here?
Ah, yes.
> > +
> > + if (!chip->disabled) {
> > + /* continue probing */
> > + if (azx_probe_continue(chip))
> > + goto error;
> > + }
> > + return; /* OK */
> > +
> > + error:
> > + snd_card_free(card);
> > + pci_set_drvdata(pci, NULL);
> > +}
> > +
> > static int __devinit azx_probe(struct pci_dev *pci,
> > const struct pci_device_id *pci_id)
> > {
> > static int dev;
> > struct snd_card *card;
> > struct azx *chip;
> > + bool probe_deferred;
> > int err;
> >
> > if (dev >= SNDRV_CARDS)
> > @@ -3182,18 +3211,22 @@ static int __devinit azx_probe(struct pci_dev *pci,
> > if (err < 0)
> > goto out_free;
> > card->private_data = chip;
>
> Right, this patch has the race removed, as the variable is no longer set
> in azx_firmware_cb. To be picky, it's slightly confusing that
> probe_deferred is also used for signalling a disabled chip. Maybe
> "probe_now" (inverted) would have been even better, like this:
Yeah, this looks slightly more straightforward.
I'm going to send a revised version shortly.
thanks,
Takashi
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