[alsa-devel] [PATCH 2/2 v3] ALSA: hda - Deferred probing with request_firmware_nowait()

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 9 Aug 2012 16:25:36 +0200,
Thierry Reding wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 04:10:55PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > For processing the firmware handling properly for built-in kernels,
> > implement an asynchronous firmware loading with
> > request_firmware_nowait().  This means that the codec probing is
> > deferred when the patch option is specified.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
> > ---
> > v1->v2: drop superfluous chip->probe_deferred field
> > v2->v3: fix missing chip->fw; renamed the variable to "probe_now"
> > 
> >  sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c |  2 +-
> >  sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> >  2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> Tested-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding at avionic-design.de>

Thanks, now pushed to sound git tree for-next branch.
As mentioned earlier, this is planned for 3.7 merge.

Also, the patches are found in topic/hda-probe-defer branch so that it
can be easily pulled to 3.6 kernel cleanly.


Takashi